A recurrent theme in modern Chinese literature is that of the interaction between the educated elite and the rural poor, a theme found in “Xiao Xiao” and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. How do you understand and interpret the relationship between different social classes portrayed in these works?
- Compare and contrast the portrayal of the Cultural Revolution in Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress and Wang Shuo’s In the Heat of the Sun.