China and the West

Dong, Hengxun. Meiguo wen xue jian shi [ID D29603].
Article about Uncle Tom's cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
"As its subject matter was based on reality, its writing techniques tended to be realistic. Thus, the book was a break from the romantic tradition that had been dominated in fiction writing for a long time. Its descriptions are vivid and accurate, with strong artistic appeal in some places. It creates with great success different types of black slaves and paints truthful pictures of the disgusting nature of the slave owners, reproducing vividly the Southern society through the experiences of different characters. Although Uncle Tom's cabin is rather loose in structure, and affected in language, and although some of its characters are not fully developed, it deserves to be regarded as an important realistic novel in the history of American literature, a precursor of the movement of realistic fiction emerging after the Civil War."