From Youthful Manuscripts to River Elegy
The Chinese Popular Cultural Movement
CHEN, Fong Ching & JIN, Guantao
English
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1997/06
ICS, Monographs in Contemporary Chinese Culture
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Among the many books dealing with the epochal changes of China during the eighties, this is probably the first full-length account of the popular cultural movement, or wenhuare. It is the result of collaboration between two Chinese intellectuals: a Beijing cultural activist who had himself played a central role in the movement, and a Hong Kong academic who had made first-hand observations of many of the events described. However, it is not personal experience, but rather interviews and documentary evidence on which this work is founded.