More than two decades ago, few high-brow readers in China took online literature seriously as the bar for ___43. ___ online was so low that anyone __44. ____ be a writer, not to mention the prevalent melodramatic genres such as romance, fantasy and time travel.
However, given the current ___45. ___ both writers and readers and its ___46. ___, online literature has become an important ___47. ___ of the cultural life of Chinese people. It also shoulders increasing ___48. ___ to ___49. ___ good stories, ___50. ___ more people to read, and help ___51. ___ the goal of building a “strong culture” by 2035, according to a study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
___52. ___ new media and the shift toward reality, Chinese online literature is ___53. ___ ancient folk literature and fiction of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Chinese online literature has ___54. ___ elements of traditional ghost stories, folklore, fiction. And it has a ___55. ___ vision, because it has married elements from Japanese anime, Hollywood fantasy, and detective stories from Europe and Japan.
While many online writers cast their eyes ___56. ___ tradition and reality, others look at the future such as science fiction. In addition to the fast-growing quantity, the general quality of online sci-fi has ___57. ___ improved.