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Frontiers of Literary Studies in China

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Front Liter Stud Chin    2008, Vol. 2 Issue (4) : 647-664    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11702-008-0026-x
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The dreams and reality of “urban strangers” --about the transition of local description in the civilization conflicts
DING Fan
Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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Abstract

Since 1990s, the phenomenon of the urbanization has determined the shift of focus in the creation of Chinese local novels. In the cultural conflicts between agricultural civilization, industrial civilization and post industrial civilization, the connotation of Chinese local literature have extended to reflect the life of farmers who have walked out their hometown and worked in the city. This topic has become an unneglectable resource for Chinese writers. At the same time, to reflect the wandering state of the body and soul of migrant workers also enlarged the border of local literature.

Keywords Chinese local novels      migrant workers      civilization conflicts      transition     
Corresponding Author(s): DING Fan,Email:dingfan@nju.edu.cn   
Issue Date: 05 December 2008
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DING Fan. The dreams and reality of “urban strangers” --about the transition of local description in the civilization conflicts[J]. Front Liter Stud Chin, 2008, 2(4): 647-664.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/flsc/EN/Y2008/V2/I4/647
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