叶兆言的《我们的心多么顽固》出版于2003年,此时兴起于上世纪80年代结束于90年代的知青文学的第一波创作热潮已经结束。在80年代,当代文坛出现的知青作家、知青故事生活背景的作品和寻根文学、反思文学甚至朦胧诗的流行都产生了密切的交织关系,王安忆、阿城、韩少功、史铁生、池莉等等作家莫不都是有参与“上山下乡”历史事件的知识青年作家,因此知青文学成为一个重要研究术语作为理解这些 Ye Zhaoyan’s “How Stubborn Our Hearts” was published in 2003, when the wave of the first wave of literary youth, which started in the late 1980s and ended in the 1990s, ended. In the 1980s, there appeared a close interweaving relationship between the educated youth writers, the literary background of the educated youth, the roots-seeking literature, the introspective literature and even the obscure poems. The writers such as Wang Anyi, Acheng, Han Shaogong, Shi Tiesheng and Chi Li et al. Are all knowledgeable young writers who have participated in the historical events “going up to the countryside”. Therefore, educated youth literature has become an important research term to understand these