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"Above Living (Illustrated Collector's Edition)" Author: Yan Zhen Publisher: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
"Above Living (Illustrated Collector's Edition)" Author: Yan Zhen Publisher: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
The sixth-place winner of the Ninth Mao Dun Literature Prize
The first Lu Yao Literature Award-winning novel
This is another long novel by Yan Zhen after "Water of Canglang". The sharp pen reveals the inside story of corruption in colleges and universities and the degeneration of Chinese intellectuals. Everything is for fame and fortune, and the best people in college are those opportunists who are unlearned and unskilled. These people are extremely smart and can take advantage of any opportunity and grasp all interpersonal relationships that can be used for me. But Yan Zhen's pen is not limited to such exposure. He also writes about the real situation of another type of intellectuals represented by "I", who have conscience and pursuit, but are helpless to survive in the real environment. Although these people also succumb to reality, they still maintain a trace of yearning for the independent personality of traditional Chinese intellectuals in their hearts. The benchmark of "I" in life is always positioned on Cao Xueqin, the great writer who wrote "Dream of Red Mansions". He experienced many hardships during his lifetime, but he never bowed to the secular world and used his life to create a masterpiece that influenced thousands of readers in later generations. As long as there is such a dream, the spiritual flame will not be extinct.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Yan Zhen, a native of Changsha, Hunan, graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Peking University and obtained a Master of Literature degree from Hunan Normal University. He is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Literature of Central South University and a member of the Chinese Writers Association. His major works include the novels Once in the End of the World (1995, overseas edition titled White Snow and Red Dust), Water of the Canglang River (2001), Because of Women (2007), and Above Living (2014), the theoretical work Centennial Literature and Postmodernism (2003), as well as academic papers and essays. There are five volumes of Yan Zhen's Collected Works.
