The Chinese avant-garde novel refers to the writing practice of a group of literary men in south China from 1984 to 1989. These literary men include Ma Yuan, Hong Feng, Su Tong, Yu Hua, and Bei Cun, and so on. They had initiated the “language revolution” of Chinese new period literature, and soon abandoned...

With the help of Booth's Rhetoric of Fiction theory, we interpret the “body” in order to review the survival paradox in Yan Lianke's novels. In this perspective, “Body” on the one hand survives on the continuous supply of food, and on the other hand exists to supply to life the needed food, only to guarantee...