"Joyful Wisdom and Sad Wisdom - Yang Jiang's Literary World" Author: Lv Yue Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House

▷Yang Jiang's 110th Birthday

▷Analyze Yang Jiang's life-long works of drama, novels, and essays, revealing the life wisdom interwoven with humor and compassion.

▷Peking University professor and famous scholar Chen Xiaoming wrote the preface and recommended it. It contains precious pictures and historical materials, showing the original appearance of Yang Jiang's works.

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【Content Introduction】

This book is a monograph on literary criticism. As a literary master who integrates Chinese and Western literature, Mr. Yang Jiang has captured the hearts of thousands of readers with his wise, pure, sincere and broad-minded words. This book is easy to understand and interprets all of Yang Jiang's dramas, novels, and prose works in detail. It explores the subtle and leads readers to appreciate the unique aesthetic characteristics, spiritual implications and cultural connotations of Yang Jiang's works, enter the inner world of this wise man wearing an "invisible cloak", and appreciate his wisdom charm of humor and compassion, rationality and sensibility.

As the first monograph at home and abroad to systematically and comprehensively expound Yang Jiang's literary creation over 80 years, this book also attempts to grasp the spiritual pulse of intellectuals in the historical changes of China in the 20th century through case analysis.

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【Celebrity Recommendation】

"Yang Jiang has both the hermit style of ancient China and the enlightenment consciousness of modern China. She is complex enough because she is sincere enough. It can be seen that reading Yang Jiang is an effective way to explore the spiritual journey of modern Chinese intellectuals."

——Chen Xiaoming, professor at Peking University and famous scholar

"In my mind, she (Yang Jiang) is one of the most outstanding vernacular writers in mainland China after 1949. When you read her works when you are young, you may only feel the refinement and calmness of her language, but as you grow older, you will find that she has a unique understanding and discovery of vernacular, and hidden mysteries. Her language is smart in silence and wise in exquisiteness. There is a kind of elegance and transcendence after being washed away by all the dross, but it is also full of vitality. I would use these words to describe her: wise, calm, independent, and noble."

"Mr. Yang Jiang not only formed his own mature literary style, but more importantly, he made us appreciate the beauty of the simplicity and implicitness of vernacular writing. This simplicity and implicitness actually reflects a spiritual realm, making Chinese characters in Mr. Yang Jiang's writing like vivid creatures, with exquisite and balanced expressiveness. This unique language and aesthetic experience is almost unique in contemporary times."

——Ye Kuangzheng, poet, scholar, and cultural critic

"In contemporary Chinese literature, there are few writers who can surpass Mr. Yang Jiang in both their ability to measure the depth of the emotions of the masses and their profound understanding of the Eastern Buddhist realm."

"The couple Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang can be said to be a pair of famous swords in contemporary Chinese literature. Qian Zhongshu is like a male sword with flowing heroic spirit, often coming out of the box and ringing by itself, shocking the world; Yang Jiang is like a female sword with green light hidden, with great wisdom but foolishness, and not showing its sharp edge."

——Literary critic and scholar Hu Heqing

"(Yang Jiang's drama creation) is good at capturing the contradictions and conflicts in daily life, describing the social situation, and being incisive. The language is humorous, interesting, and full of tears and smiles. It is full of personal artistic style. It is not only a masterpiece at the time, but also a rare masterpiece in the history of Chinese drama."

——Tang Tao, writer and literary theorist

"The one who stood out and attracted widespread attention was Yang Jiang. Her "Come What You Want" and "Make a True False" are the twin peaks of comedy, and are among the best works in the inventory of Chinese drama."

——Film theorist and playwright Ke Ling

"The impression given to me by Bathing is half Dream of the Red Chamber and half The Scholars."

——Shi Zhecun, writer, translator, and educator

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