Sartre's Encounter with China: Discovery and Reconstruction of the Human Paradigm in New-Era Chinese Literature
Keywords:
Chinese literature, existentialism, philosophical influences, Sartre, Jean-PaulAbstract
As one of the most influential contemporary Western cultural currents in China, Sartrean Existentialism has enlightened and deepened the literary presentation of the self and life since the beginning of the 1980s. From the late 1980s and into the 1990s, “New Realism”, “New Generation”, and “Late Generation” appeared on the literary stage, their writings indicating a kind of Sinolization of Sartrean discourses.References
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