MODERNISM IN CHINESE “SEARCH FOR ROOTS” LITERATURE OF THE 1980s

Abstract

The article is focused on the problem of modernism development in Chinese literature of the 1980s.
The relevance of the modernism study in Chinese literature of the 1980s is determined by the importance of modern forms of art, which enabled a fundamental change the situation in contemporary Chinese literature, not only through the frst decade after the “cultural revolution” but also in subsequent periods. Particular attention is paid to the study of the “search for roots” literature — one of the most signifcant results of searching for modernism in the 1980 in China. The direction of the “search for roots” literature took politics out of literature and separated it. This is one of the most signifcant results of searching for the modernism of the 1980s, which aimed at forming a new subjectivity in Chinese literature in the context of awareness and overcoming the identity crisis, caused by the catastrophe of the adamant ideological discourse. In this sense, the value of modernism in contemporary Chinese literature goes far beyond the literary process itself.
Key words: modernism, “searching for roots” literature, Chinese literature, cultural revolution, China.