Comments On Literature
Wang was one of the committee members to adjudicate the “20th century 100 greatest Chinese novels”. As the novels revealed to Wang a feeling of sorrow and a sense of pressure, he commented the 20th century Chinese novels as a reflection of Chinese history in the past 100 years which he saw a difficult and suffering period for the intellectuals.
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