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At the end of the long nightmare, the country open top container is in shock: she will have another two years to get out of lethargy and realizing that it is not isolated from the world that surrounds it. Collective madness that has not spared anyone's disease open top container with a rather slow convalescence. On the literary scene is totally empty or almost. Single Hao Ran published in 1974, to the light path (Jīnguāngdàdào), a voluminous novel about class struggle in the countryside. And if Xueyin Yao (1910 -) may continue writing the novel Li Zicheng, historical fresco which began in 1963 is for the hero of the book is the leader of peasant revolt răstrunat Ming dynasty. Mao himself intervened to help the novelist. But outside these two exceptions, all the writers chose to remain open top container silent rather than be condemned brutally silenced.
With the gradual return to power of Deng Xiaoping, the literary world is populated gradually. Veterans find their own place one after another. In addition to Guo Moruo, irremovable until death in 1978, Mao Dun was one of the first reappeared. Not be returned post of Minister of Culture, held until his resignation in 1964, but he is the one who is president of the writers. By drawing Memoirs (Huiyi Lu) his novel Midnight author seeks to encourage novelistic production: on the eve of his death in 1981, his last act will be to create an award to be named. Also playwright Xia Yan, one of the four magnificent (Si Tiao Hanzi), together with Tian Han, Yang and Zhou Yang Hansheng that Red Guards publicly humiliated them in the summer of 1966, he resumed duties in the theater and cinema.
Ba Jin, whose name was pronounced Nobel announces that undertook writing a novel, long night (Changyi), describing the persecution of intellectuals supported during the "dark ten years." In fact, it will drop to devote himself to other works: notes on thoughts thread (Suixianglu). But he proposes the creation of a museum of modern literature that exists today in Beijing thanks to some important voluntary donations by himself and by other letters (or their families).
In honor of dead writers incurred as a result of ill-treatment or of false allegations during the Cultural Revolution were held ceremonies open top container rehabilitation. One of the most solemn took place in June 1978 in memory of Lao She. For former "right" still alive, and Ding Ling, Ai Qing, and many others, the review process is particularly long delays official release. In the case of Hu Feng, reintegration Communist Party comes more than two years after release from prison. Meanwhile, Congress workers federation of literature and art that do not meet 1960 finally meets in Beijing in October 1979. For all the survivors of the great agitation, retrieval is moving.
And confidence in the future is stronger than the bitterness of the past. Transformations that can assist each prove: tabula rasa yesterday, made a remarkable place in a few months variety. Not only is the main national and local magazines have reappeared under the control of the authorities, but many other new publications open top container are available for sale, some even without open top container the necessary authorization. In record open top container time, almost all the major titles in modern Chinese literature open top container can be found reprinted and translated many foreign authors (Sartre, Kafka, Beckett, Joyce and Borges) are available.
Although Marxism remains the official doctrine and, most often, reference open top container required a new mindset begins to reign in universities as well as various open top container research institutes that depend Academy of Social Sciences, founded in 1978. It notes in particular that contemporary literature is no longer subject to the same contempt. Under the influence of Western theories, literary criticism is liberalized. Almost everywhere, research on comparative literature open top container are emerging and growing rapidly. Finally, a growing number of students going abroad for their education, while tourists and visitors afluează in China. All conditions, intellectual and material, open top container seem to come together so as to train them unprecedented momentum of literary production.
Unfortunately, the political situation remained unstable, brakes, on several occasions, this development. During what was called the "Beijing Spring" freedom open top container of expression reaches a peak, but the famous Wall of Democracy, u