What kind of experience do you think it is to be a graduate student in modern and contemporary literature?

First of all, there is such a contempt chain among graduate students majoring in literature, and those who study literary theory look down on those who study literature; In literature, those who study foreign literature look down on those who study China literature; Those who study China's ancient literature despise those who study China's modern and contemporary literature; Those who study modern literature look down on those who study contemporary literature. I once read a sentence, "There is no cure for a cold, so there are the most cold medicines in the world;" Modern and contemporary literature has the least research value, so there are the most people who study modern and contemporary literature. "They don't know that modernity and contemporariness are a developing concept. For people in the 1950s, the so-called "modernity" today is their contemporaries. For another example, it is embarrassing for us to call the era more than half a century ago contemporary. The reason why some people deny the value of modern and contemporary (especially contemporary) literature is only because these works have not been "canonized" and the authority of canonized literature has been questioned again. This is a big problem. Here, I just want to say that in Du Fu's time, Du Fu was not a saint.

There are not many specialized courses for graduate students of modern and contemporary literature, mainly to deepen and expand the undergraduate Chinese major in the field of modern and contemporary literature. Of course, when you are not in class, you are reading. In the first class of each class, teachers often make a long list of books, and some places are terrible, such as "Please read the complete works for the following writers" and "Focus on reading for the following writers". There are many theoretical books, the title of which is really new to me. Nine times out of ten books can't be bought on Dangdang JD.COM Amazon, so you can only try your luck in big bookstores or online Confucius' old books (you often have to find your own electronic version to print).