乡土文学

鄉土文學
xiāngtǔ wénxué
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 native-soil literature, writing about rural and local life
  2. 2 nativist literature, the 1970s Taiwanese movement centered on local life

Examples

HSK 5
Shěn Cóngwén xiě Xiāngxī de xiǎoshuō, cháng bèi kànzuò xiāngtǔ wénxué de dàibiǎo.
Shen Congwen's novels about western Hunan are often seen as representative of native-soil literature.
HSK 7-9
Táiwān wéntán céngjīng wéirào xiāngtǔ wénxué fāshēng guo yì chǎng yǒumíng de lùnzhàn.
Taiwan's literary world once had a famous debate over nativist literature.

Tips

history
鲁迅 used the term in 1935 for young writers recalling their home villages. In Taiwan it names the nativist movement of the 1970s, with writers such as 黄春明, which turned from modernist and mainland-centered writing to island life and local speech; the debate over it broke out in 1977.

Stroke Order

乡 xiāng
土 tǔ
文 wén
学 xué