Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature 10 presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. This book offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature. | 62 HONG FENG of expressing spontaneous feelings and sentiments. The lessons he learned from the conference and the subsequent political purges within the Communist ranks left indelible marks on He s literary work. Most of his writing after 1942 and especially since 1949 is political in nature. See also MODERNISTS. HONG FENG 1957- . Fiction writer. Born and raised in a small town of Jilin Province in China s northeast Hong Feng is often mentioned in the company of Ma Yuan the most prominent Chinese experimental fiction writer also from the northeast. The stories he wrote in the 1980s are regarded as representative works of China s avant-garde literature. Bensang Going to a Funeral a story of a son attending his father s funeral uses an ironic voice to dismantle the authority of the father by a rebellious son symbolizing the call for an end to the blind political idealism of the Mao era. Hanhai The Great Sea shares some of the concerns of the root-seekers in its depictions of folk customs in China s northeastern borders. In his more recent works Shengsi yuehui Critical Rendezvous which recounts a man s history of sexual relationships with several women and Zhongnian dixian The Last Defense of Middle Age about the dangerous world of sex power and money Hong takes a completely different approach. Instead of writing for the elitist few he aims to entertain the populace both in terms of subject matter and narrative method. HONG KONG. What was known as the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong includes the island of Hong Kong which the Qing government ceded to Great Britain in 1842 after it lost the Opium War 1839-1841 Kowloon ceded in 1862 and the New Territories leased to the British in 1898. Under British rule Hong Kong prospered and became one of the most important shipping trading and financial centers in the world. For most of its colonial history Hong Kong enjoyed peace and prosperity with the exception of World War II when Japan invaded and occupied the city from 1941
