http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/2513/mohammed-s-ali Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:14:47 -0400 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:14:47 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1022/transmitting-values-through-literature-considering-three-short-stories-of-chinese-revolution By Mohammed S. Ali - Yet what happens when one generation of writers attempts to turn the tide on the values instilled by the literature of a previous generation? This question is exlpored and answered in the consideration of three classics, each written by Chinese women in the Revolutionary era: Zong Pu’s Red Beans, Ding Ling’s Shanghai, Spring 1930, and Xiao Hong’s Hands. Answers are found in the transformations and clashes between the old bourgeois ideals and the new socialist ideals that play out in the worldviews of their protagonists. In their dramatizations of social change at the individual... Mon, 06 Apr 2015 08:48 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1022/transmitting-values-through-literature-considering-three-short-stories-of-chinese-revolution