Xiayan and his works

in the history of modern Chinese literature

especially in the history of Chinese modern drama

afford everyone much food for thought. As the important theme and subject of new literature in China

modern intellectuals

in Xiayan’s plays

occupied an important place and were treated with his special attention. In Xiayan’s plays

the figures of common intellectuals

with too much of his emotions and painstaking labor

could stand up to the test of the time. In a sense

it is the emergence and existence of those common intellectual figures that established Xiayan’s position in the literature history.