The transaction from fragmentation, which is mans identity exploited by the experience of impersonal collectivism, to individualism, which is the post-Mao discourse over history and self of de-construction and reconstruction, generates a tale of sorrows and disenchantment, desperate characters seeking for definition. Narrative produces protagonist looking for the inner-self, what they were or what they had before chaos took the shape of modernity, but more often than not, it’s the dramatic awareness of man’s loneliness what accompanies their journey through life and once more shorten the distance between Chinese contemporary literature and Western modernist production. Decadence and nostalgia are the overwhelming feelings wrapping the tale for a time never existed.

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