Main works: Ye Xin's Idle Time, Zhulin's Road to Life, and Li Ping's When the Sunset Disappears. After the mid-1980s, it is an educated youth novel with the nature of "reflection", which is characterized by thinking about the distortion of human nature.
Main works: Zhu Xiaoping's Chronicle of Sangshuping, Zhang Kangkang's Invisible Companion, Lu Tianming's The Sun in the Sangna Plateau, Old Ghost's Bloody Dusk, and Li Rui's Close the Grave. From 1990s to 2000s, this generation of educated youth has stepped into middle-aged and elderly people, and sometimes there are some gloomy memoirs, documentary works, or literary works created according to their own educated youth's personal experience.
Main works: Liu Hai's Youth Without a Master published by People's Daily Press.
This novel has made a new breakthrough and once again set off the climax of "educated youth literature" in the literary world. His works are about the life of educated youth in Chengdu who jumped the queue in Huili County, southwest Panxi Plateau. Huili County is located in the Panxi Plateau in the "triangle zone" between Jinsha River and Anning River, with mountains in the east, mountains in the west and Jinsha River Grand Canyon in the southwest. In this special geographical environment, educated youth in Chengdu are scattered in production teams with high mountains and dense forests, and Han and Yi people live together. Because they are different from "collective educated youth", they are nicknamed "batch educated youth", which is the unique view of "ownerless youth". In the contradiction and conflict, the appeal of the little people at the bottom of the society to human nature, the yearning for a harmonious society, the restless emotions and the slight waves of ideological liberation have become a highlight of the novel.