Il romanzo cinese e la Cina "liquida" di Yu Hua

This article is focused on the artistic development in the novels written by the Chinese writer Yu Hua during the last decades. Following the recent turbulent evolution of Chinese society and culture, Yu Hua's fiction has gone through different phases from the avantgarde, the postmodern experimental fiction of the 1980's, to the so-called neorealistic phase in the late 20th century, up to the recent hyperrealistic works, which perfectly reflect and embody Z. Bauman's theory of liquid modernity.