Title: One's "Renaissance"
Douban score: 7.5
Author:? Bai Xianyong?
Publisher:? Guangxi Normal University Press
Producer:? Utopia. Antonym of DYSTOPIA
Year of publication:? 20 19- 1
Page:? 4 16
Content introduction:
People ask me where your home is, and I can't answer it at once. Not geographically, I said, my hometown is the traditional culture of China. I think what China people at home and abroad need is the revival of China culture before the centenary of the May 4th Movement in 20 19. This "revival" must be to rediscover the essence of China's cultural tradition for thousands of years, and then continue with the new culture of the modern world, and complete the reconstruction or reconstruction of China culture on this basis. In other words, we need a new May 4th Movement. -Bai Xianyong
A man's Renaissance is a collection of essays published by Bai Xianyong on the occasion of the centenary of the New Culture Movement in China, which mainly includes articles on literary and artistic activities. Bai Xianyong chatted with young friends about novels and his experience in novel creation; Ten years of hard work is extraordinary, on the aesthetic value of Kunqu opera; Saving You Sanjie's Chastity —— On the version of A Dream of Red Mansions: "Now is a good time for cultural revival" tells about the preservation and dissemination of cultural classics and how to revive China's traditional culture. The time span of these articles, from the 1970s to the present, shows that it is Bai Xianyong's sad wish to realize our "revival" for many years. Bai Xianyong once said that all my preparations are for our "revival". If we examine Bai Xianyong's literary life from the dimension of "Renaissance", we will find that from his youth to the present, all his literary activities are permeated with a clue of trying to "revive" China's traditional culture-looking back, neither his literary creation nor his literary and cultural practice (running literary publications, promoting Kunqu Opera and promoting A Dream of Red Mansions) are invisible. The articles included in this anthology reflect the historical track and basic characteristics of Bai Xianyong's personal color "Renaissance".
About the author:
Writer. Born in Guilin, Guangxi, 1937, the son of Bai Chongxi. Graduated from Foreign Languages Department of Taiwan Province Provincial University, Master of Literature Creation in Writers' Workshop of Iowa University. He is the author of short stories collection Lonely Seventeen, Taipei Man, The New Yorker, novel Evil Son, prose collection Tree Like, Looking Back Suddenly, Star Cafe, The Sixth Finger, stage plays, movie scripts, The Last Night of Jin Daban and Sister-in-law Qing Yu. In recent years, he devoted himself to the revival of Kunqu Opera across the Taiwan Strait and reinterpreted and popularized the classic Dream of Red Mansions, and adapted Tang Xianzu's opera The Peony Pavilion, Gao Lian's The Jade Hairpin, the anonymous Bailuoshan and Bai Xianyong's Interpretation of a Dream of Red Mansions.