Chinese literature writing city experiences

2010 21 October 9 a.m., after two rounds of voting, the nine judges voted for the 2010 seriously annual "maotai cup" people's literature prize, this is this award continuous eighth selection.

This session jury consists of three writers and critics and three readers three representatives, they are GaoHongBo, LiuJianDe, WangShuZeng, wang gang, WangGuangMing, ShaoYanJun, SunXiaoNing,ci zhen lvl hawkes group, LiXiaoYing. In an hour and a half and free discussion time, one of the judges speech, primary works are discussed and evaluation, during the debate, thering is no lack of opinions differ, the atmosphere was very democracy, warm and candor. After discussing for anonymous voting. The winners requirements votes half-done. The first round of voting, produce full-length novels, the fictional, short stories and prose project award authors and novellas and poetry prize after a second vote to produce.

Excellent foreign novels even with local literary tradition, urban themes also never lack, such as dickens wrote British citizens, Balzac immigrants-and write Paris "society", dreiser wrote the city women... And to have literary tradition Chinese literature, urban novels in mainstream literary position but didn't get due recognition. Yesterday, in Shanghai writers' association, Shanghai literature development foundation, Shanghai: Shanghai wenyi press, jointly organized "as a literary city Shanghai and the sea of literary hundred library symposium on Shanghai university professor GeGongBing viewpoint is: over the past 30 years, China has undergone the world's largest and most dash of urbanization process, Shanghai literature therein be a great function, but it is not fully known. Shanghai literature significance, it has undertaken a southern culture, south thought, southern aesthetic value system, it gives the Chinese culture south aesthetic provides it coordinates.

Experts think, Shanghai literature ever in history assume important mission. In GeGongBing opinion, Shanghai literature in Chinese cultural history provides a triple meaning at least: first is provided for , to provide urban civilization Chinese ideology of material and thinking guidelines. He thought, "China is actually a rural civilized countries, the local civilized countries, we have a lot of experience description localization, describing nature, description farming society, but very lack of describing urban sanya civilization and urban cultural experience and ability, we often take a metropolis culture as social culture, but the opposite of Shanghai literature it is precisely this provided above a possibility, for example showing our concession experience, showing our left-wing experience. Especially left-wing literature is born in Shanghai, it provides enlightenment literature experience and in the 1990s offer an alternative culture of the urban experience."

Hong Kong lingnan university Chinese department professor XuZiDong thinks, at present to Shanghai literature and represents the character's determination of some mistake. For example peotry live in Hong Kong for years, many works published in Hong Kong, but in the field of consensus wouldn't take him as is Hong Kong writers. So where writing or published works not constitute this writer attribute the necessary condition. But critics LiLunXin thinks, "Shanghai" are interesting, because mix, in fact because it is no pie pie, Shanghai is various genres at the same time, the intergrowth, muck city just has vigor, only competitive.

It is reported, by Shanghai writers' association, Shanghai literature development foundation presided compilation, Shanghai: Shanghai wenyi press published "sea literature hundred library", categorized length and select chapters,The a demonstration of Shanghai this literature town of historic. "Library" totaling 130 many volumes, select the early 19th century to the mid-twentieth century, in Shanghai area appear 267 writer rich distinctive characteristic of the age and representative works of art features, a total of around 60 million words.

Attend the seminar also ChenPingYuan, MeiGuLing, LiuJianDe, ChenZiShan, WangXiaoMing, WangJiRen and relevant experts and scholars.