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Writers in PostMao
era write about their traumatic memories and experiences including starvation, depression, death, and
violence during the Cultural Revolution. Themes such as ugliness, deformation, and cruelty are repetitively appeared in
novels, plays, short stories, poems, and films. How do they reflect and recall their comingofage
and youth life in their
respective works? Consider the following dynamics between family and nation, the individual and the society, the self and
the collective, and Han Chinese and ethnic minorities situated in rural frontier areas
