Part Three: The Modern Era: Contemporary Culture and Art

[Overview of the Era] After the year 3000 of the Stargate Calendar, prolonged peace gradually drew cultural activity away from memories of war and back toward cities, schools, families, professions, and local environments. For several thousand years after the wars, the Fall of Hengguang and the two great wars remained the dominant shared subjects; once regional gates and inexpensive media became widespread, campuses, port districts, migrant families, and ordinary professions appeared extensively in creative works, while Interspace branch routes brought dream patterns, refracted images, low-light perception, mechanical senses, and arboreal life into wider cultural circulation.

After the year 9000 of the Stargate Calendar, local languages and arts underwent a marked revival. Universities in Weien, Jiuyan, Chenlu, and many other places actively sought out plays, ballads, oral accounts, and image-pattern materials that had seldom been translated before; publishing houses in book cities, theaters in port districts, performances in dream Interspaces, mechanical-image galleries, and local schools consequently formed overlapping channels of transmission.

[From Postwar Memory to Narratives of Everyday Life] Weien, Chenlu, and Jiuyan have long shaped modern publishing. Weien specializes in textual collation, scholarship, and cross-language publishing; Jiuyan brings documentary materials and inexpensive readers to small and medium-sized worlds; and Chenlu has developed an extensive body of narratives about ordinary people from refugee families, schools, and local museums. Qi Wangchuan’s early research into migration archives belonged to historiography while also influencing documentary literature, making old family possessions, school essays, and local newspapers materials worthy of serious writing.