It shows how different, relaxing, friendly and intriguing community-life in this village can be in comparison to the modern western society.

相对于现代西方社会而言，在村庄里，这里展示了一种如此不同的，休闲的，友好的，迷人的社区生活。

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In Shen Congwen's novels, the world's life forms on the village of praise and satire of modern urban life, constitute the whole of his literary creation of two parts.

在沈从文的小说中，对乡村世界生命形式的赞美和对现代都市人生的讽刺构成了他整体文学创作的两部分。

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Broadcaster, actor and writer Stephen Fry, who is a big fan of the series, described the drama on the Archers website as depicting "a 21st-Century village, with all the pressures of modern rural life".

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To earlier generations, escaping the claustrophobic all-knowingness of a village for the relative anonymity of the city was one of the more liberating aspects of modern life.

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For anyone numbed by the impersonal nature of modern Chinese apartment blocks or the frenzied pace of urban China, the earth buildings are enchanting reminders of communal village life and the ancient rhythms of the agrarian southeast.

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