Chinese literature portraying damage caused by the Cultural Revolution
Scar Literature
Years active
1978 Onwards
Location
Mainland China
Major figures
Liu Xinwu Zhang Chengzhi
Influences
Cultural Revolution
Boluan Fanzheng Movement
Political persecution
Trauma
Scar literature
Traditional Chinese
傷痕文學
Simplified Chinese
伤痕文学
Hanyu Pinyin
Shānghén wénxué
Scar literature or literature of the wounded (Chinese: 伤痕文学; pinyin: shānghén wénxué) is a genre of Chinese literature which emerged in the late 1970s during the "Boluan Fanzheng" period, soon after the death of Mao Zedong, portraying the sufferings of cadres and intellectuals during the experiences of the Cultural Revolution and the rule of the Gang of Four.[1]
Scarliterature or literature of the wounded (Chinese: 伤痕文学; pinyin: shānghén wénxué) is a genre of Chinese literature which emerged in the late 1970s...
A scar (or scar tissue) is an area of fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury. Scars result from the biological process of wound repair...
bemoaned abuses that had held China back. This literature, often called "scarliterature", or "the literature of the wounded", discussed the experiences of...
young people sent to rural villages of China during the movement (see scarliterature). Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping was also among the youth...
the period; alternative are discouraged. A new genre of literature known as "scarliterature" (Shanghen Wenxue) emerged, encouraged by the post-Mao government...
revolutionary art to more market-oriented and individualist works like scarliterature. Hua regained the loyalty of party cadre and intellectuals, who had...
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research on the subject increased; it is a relatively recent term in the literature. Scar free healing occurs in foetal life but the ability progressively diminishes...
the Cultural Revolution. His work has sometimes been referred to as scarliterature, though this assessment is disputed. Liu filled editorial positions...
August 5, 1990) was a Chinese writer regarded as a representative of Scarliterature. Born in Jianyang, Sichuan, he is famous in China for the 1979 novel...
Cun's production. His approach was original with respect to both the scarliterature denouncing the horrors of the Cultural Revolution and the Maoist propaganda...
"Mayor Ying." Tr. Jeanne Kelly. In Wai-lim Yip, ed., Chinese Arts and Literature: A Survey of Recent Trends. Occasional Papers/Reprint Series in Contemporary...
various new genres of literature have emerged, including the "scarliterature", the "contemplative literature (反思文学) " and the "literature of reforms (改革文学)"...
and "positive" portrayal of the Cultural Revolution. For instance, “scarliterature” writer Feng Jicai criticized the film as “indiscriminate nostalgia”...
Party Class struggle Sino-Soviet split Two Whatevers Morning Sun (film) 3rd Plenum of the 11th Central Committee Boluan Fanzheng Scarliterature Category...
Since then, people were allowed to post their opinions and free-style literature on street walls throughout the country. On November 23 of 1978, Lü Pu...
Mornings in Jenin, (2010, U.S.; originally published as The Scar of David, 2006, United States and Les Matins de Jenin, France) is a novel by author Susan...
received a ban there on orders of Deng Xiaoping himself. Part of China's scarliterature, Bai Hua's story is set in mainland China and the United States. It...
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there was a shift in tone in literature from the positive narratives found during the Cultural Revolution. Scarliterature of the 1970s and 1980s offered...
the late 1970s there emerged a whole new genre of literature in China, the so-called Scarliterature of reports of personal experiences directly written...
such as scarring or hyperpigmentation. Large nodules were previously called cysts. The term nodulocystic has been used in the medical literature to describe...