Novel

Themes

The unique social environment and values of mainland China form featured themes in examinations.

  • Beauty (人性美) and ugliness (人性丑) of humanity
    • Beauty: family love (亲情), intimacy (爱情), friendship (友情), national sentiment (民族情) and love with strangers (陌生人情) etc
    • Ugliness: arrogant and ignorant (傲慢无知), follow the crowd and trending (从众趋新), complacency (固步自封)
    • Complexity (人性的复杂)
    • Sympathy and mercy (同情与怜悯)
  • War and Peace (战争与和平)
    • Anti-war and yearning for peace (反战和对和平的向往)
    • Red culture, revolutionary tradition (红色文化 革命传统)
  • Thinking of civilization (文明的思考)
    • The future of humanity (人类未来): Science and fantasy (科学与幻想)
    • Thoughts on the process of urbanization (城镇化进程的思考)
    • Thinking of tradition (对传统的思考)
    • Changes of the times (时代的变革)
  • Human and nature (人类与自然)
    • Live in harmony (人与自然和谐共处)

Magic & Reality

Representative Writers: Gabriel García Márquez

Template

  • The magic storyline has a basis in reality.
  • Magical details are vivid and realistic, with no contradiction to reality.
  • Magical things and phenomena symbols, represents and suggests real life.

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