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The Study on Jin Fan’s Novel The Open Love Letter

Kim, Jong-Seok 1

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During the Cultural Revolution, The Open Love Letter written by Jin Fan(Liu qingfeng), was quickly spread to young generation with handwritten copies and became a very important part of the underground literature during the time of Cultural Revolution. The Open Love Letter to young people shows the exploration of the Old Five Sessions(“laowujie”) in dark time with the epistolary style. The call for sincerity, the concern about the outlet of future China and the pursuit for personal involvement all greatly touched young generation. This paper aims to analyze some characteristics, who is in the deep-level value for human feelings and reflecting the writer’s intensive thinking over searching for self-identification of the Old Five Sessions. This novel is recently regarded as classical text of the underground works in the 1970s, which was regarded as a controversial work and long forgotten, has been constantly touched upon by scholars in recent years. This paper aims to analyze why it has been neglected and brought up again.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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