The short story "Appointment of Director Joe" published in People's Literature 1979 No.7 is the beginning of "literature reform". Since then, a large number of "reform literature" works, such as Jia Pingwa's "Impetuousness" and "Twelfth Moon? The first month and Lu Yao's Ordinary World appeared one after another.
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Reform literature refers to China's literary creation at the end of 20th century and the beginning of 20th century, as well as related literary theories and criticisms. It originated from the implementation of China's reform and opening-up policy, and it is an innovation and change in the form and content of traditional literature.
Paying attention to real life and social problems and criticizing and surpassing traditional literary concepts and forms are the main characteristics of reformist literature. Its theme is to face up to social reality, pay attention to people's lives, reflect social changes and personal destiny, and express characters and emotional experiences in real, vivid and vivid language.
The creative forms of reform literature are various, including novels, poems, plays, essays and so on. Among them, novel has become one of the main creative forms of reform literature, revealing social problems and personal destiny changes with novel narrative techniques and broad narrative perspectives. Reform literature also pays attention to expressing individual psychological state and inner world, and emphasizes the exploration and revelation of human nature.
During the development of literary reform, some important writers and works appeared, such as Li Jingze's Silent Majority, Yu Hua's Alive and Mo Yan's Red Sorghum Family. These works, with their profound social insight, distinctive personality expression and unique creative style, have had a far-reaching impact on contemporary literature in China.
Reforming literature is not only a literary creation phenomenon, but also reflects the social changes and the spirit of the times in China. It has played an active role in promoting literary freedom, diversity of expression and social progress, and has become one of the important chapters in the history of contemporary literature in China.
From the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee at the end of 1978, China began the top-down reform of the national economic system. At the same time, many writers began to turn their creative eyes from history to reality, paying attention to the reform and development in reality while expressing their thoughts and ideas on the development of the motherland in literature.
This is coquettish "reform literature", and its opening work is Jiang Zilong's novella "Appointment of Director Joe". Reform literature can also be understood as unique literature in the period of reform and opening up.