Glossary 9 Flashcards

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Bei Dao

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Born in 1949 so was a youth in Cultural Revolution

Misty Poetry

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The New Era 1979-89

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Post Mao
‘Reform and opening’
Deng Xiaoping

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Misty Poetry

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朦朧詩 menglongshi
Opaque, obscure, hard to understand, confusing, ambiguous, pessimistic, critical, skeptical
Western influenced

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Roots-seeking fiction

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Ah Cheng

A literary movement concerned with “why were we so passionate about the Revolution and Mao?”

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Ah Cheng

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Born in 1949

He was part of Cultural Revolution but began to question politics.

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Yu Hua

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Born in 1960
Experimental fiction - deconstructs old narratives and deliberately challenges reader.
Attacks culture of literature: the shortcoming of words and the violence of words.
Grew up surrounded by death

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Intertextuality

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The interrelationship between texts; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other

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