Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature 19 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. | 152 OUYANG SHAN PEN NAME OF YANG FENGQI poets Zhai Yongming and Bai Hua. Echoing American poet Wallace Stevens Ouyang asserts that the highest form of reality can be achieved only through the intervention of creative agency and that poetry because of its total dependence on the perception of the individual mind contains more truth than any other genre. OUYANG SHAN PEN NAME OF YANG FENGQI 1908-2000 . Novelist. Ouyang Shan is often compared with Lao She for they began their literary careers at about the same time with Ouyang writing about urban life in the southern city of Guangzhou and Lao She the northern city of Beijing. This is however where the similarities end. Ouyang Shan because of his membership in the Left-wing Association of Chinese Writers had strong Marxist leanings and his writings clearly reflect his political orientation. Most of the fictional works he published in the 1920s and early 1930s were romantic tales with a revolutionary theme. Ouyang s first novel Meigui can le The Roses Have Faded a sentimental tale influenced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe s The Sorrows of Young Werther tells of the tragic love between a university student and a young woman interspersed with indignant outcries against imperialism. Ai zhi benliu The Current of Love shows greater artistic merit in depicting a young man s entanglement with two women one poor and the other rich. This tragic story exposes the cruelty of high society and shows sympathy for the lower class an ideological preoccupation that continues into his later works such as Gao Ganda Gao Ganda and Yidai fengliu A Whole Generation of Heroes . Gao Ganda which records the agricultural cooperative movement in the Communist-controlled northwest was his first novel written in response to the directives issued by Mao Zedong at the Yan an Forum on Literature and Art in 1942. The voluminous Yidai fengliu consisting of five parts is his most ambitious project. It portrays the complicated relations among three families