Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature 17 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. | 132 MA YUAN Teachers College in Shandong Province. Along with other Chinese college graduates recruited by the government to serve as teachers technical experts doctors and government officials Ma was assigned to work first as an administrator and then as an editor for Xizang wenxue Tibetan Literature a journal publishing literary works written in Chinese. She traveled extensively on assignments eventually covering every county over 70 in the Tibetan Autonomous Region. Since 2003 she has been working as general editor for Tibetan Studies Press in Beijing. In the initial phase of her encounter with Tibet Ma belonged in her own words to the last generation of Chinese romantic poets. Tibet provided a fantasy world into which she projected her own dreams. Later when she became interested in anthropology Ma turned to prose writing. As she traversed the Tibetan plateau and met a wide spectrum of Tibetan people she became one of the region s best-known spokespersons and advocates. Her cultural reportages and travel notes which resulted from solid field research portray Tibetan customs in vivid details. Because of the unique literary sensibility displayed in these works Ma is credited for having built a bridge between anthropology and literature and has been called a literary anthropologist. Her most important prose works include Zangbei youli Glimpses of Northern Tibet Xixing Ahli Journey Westward to Ali Linghun xiang feng The Soul Is like the Wind and Zangdong hong shanmai The Red Mountains in Eastern Tibet . Her poems are collected in Wo de taiyang My Sun and her essays in Zhui ni dao gaoyuan Following You to the Tibetan Plateau . She is also a noted scholar on Tibetan literature having published Xueyu wenhua yu Xizang wenxue The Culture of the Snow Land and Tibetan Literature . Ma s recent publication Ruyi gaodi The Highland of Dreams is a fictional work inspired by the personal account of Chen Quzhen a Qing military officer sent into Tibet in the early 20th century. .
