British Influence And Chinese Women’s Literature In The Past Century

In the hundred years of the development of Chinese female literature,women express their own thoughts and voices,express the complex gender situation,while dispelling the male discourse system,more promote people to recognize themselves in a more comprehensive way.Their creation has multiple cultural background factors of the nation,the times and the world,from "the liberation of man" to "the liberation of women".In the tortuous and long course of development of Chinese female literature for a hundred years,British culture and literature have always been a source of influence and frame of reference,accompanied by the ideological upsurge of Western learning to the east,experienced a brief cold reception,and finally deeply rooted in the spiritual soil of modern and contemporary Chinese female writers.It makes their literature show the profound and subtle depth of human nature,unique gender poetics and complex aesthetic style,and coruscate strong vitality in the era of globalization.This paper takes the social,historical and cultural reasons and specific representations of Chinese female literature accepting British influence since the May 4th Movement as the research object.First of all,the relationship between modern and contemporary Chinese women writers and English literature is closely related to the pattern of Chinese society and the translation and introduction of English literature.In terms of the theme of literature,British female writers such as Charlotte Bronte and Woolf inject power into the construction of gender discourse in contemporary Chinese female literature,whether it is the writing of women’s growth or the life experience of "escape".Or the localization of the concept of "androgyny" is closely related to the influence of English literature.Secondly,from the perspective of the aesthetic characteristics of literature,the modern and post-modern masters of English literature,such as Joyce,Yeats and Angela Carter,have brought innovation in artistic skills to the creation of Chinese female writers.it brings fresh blood in the writing tradition of autobiography,the construction of "room" image and the text experiment of modernity.The purpose of this study is to explore the modern experience and aesthetic features of modern and contemporary Chinese female literature under the influence of foreign culture and literature,so as to fill the research gaps in this field and provide new research ideas by studying the origin and representation of Chinese female literature influenced by English literature in the past hundred years,in order to explore the modern experience and aesthetic style of Chinese modern and contemporary female literature under the influence of foreign culture and literature.Finally,we can get a glimpse of the occurrence and development of modern and contemporary Chinese literature,as well as the real picture of women’s survival.In addition to the introduction and conclusion,the thesis has seven chapters.From the macro to the micro,from the overall consideration to the specific analysis,trying to take into account the phenomenon and causes of the influence of Chinese women’s literature on the influence of English literature in the past century.The chapter arrangement and the main content of each chapter are roughly as follows:The introduction part briefly introduces.On the basis of reviewing the current research situation of this topic at home and abroad,this paper explains the research ideas and innovation of this topic.Tapping the potential and important influence of such a special resource of English literature on the creation of Chinese female writers can not only provide new ideas and open up new fields for the study of female literature.it can also provide a reference and research model for Chinese modern and contemporary writers to accept the influence of foreign literature.The first part is a general summary,which expounds the social,historical and cultural reasons and concrete representations of Chinese female literature accepting the influence of English literature since the May 4th Movement.Starting from the overall historical and cultural context,the first chapter explains the emergence of the relationship between Chinese modern and contemporary women writers and English literature,and there is a close relationship between the pattern of Chinese society and the translation and introduction of English literature.An overview of the creative characteristics of modern and contemporary female writers living or studying in Britain,such as Shu-Hua Ling Chen,Bing Xin,Yang Jiang,Eileen Chang and Hong Ying,as well as the enlightenment brought to female writers by Britain’s great realistic creative tradition,distinct modernist avant-garde skills and strong female consciousness.The second chapter discusses the fresh perspective that English literature has brought to modern and contemporary Chinese women writers in terms of the theme of literature.Charlotte Bronte,Woolf,Jane Austen and other British female writers have injected power into the construction of gender discourse in modern and contemporary Chinese female literature,whether it is the writing of women’s growth,the awareness of "escape" and life experience,or the localization of the concept of "androgyny".Are closely related to the influence of English literature.The third chapter starts with the aesthetic characteristics of literature.Joyce,Yeats,Angela Carter and other modern and post-modern masters of English literature bring innovation in artistic skills to Bing Xin,Zhang Jie,Xu Bin,Chen ran,Zhao Mei,Zhai Yongming,Zhang Yueran and other Chinese modern and contemporary female writers.It brings fresh blood to modern and contemporary female creation in the writing tradition of autobiography,the construction of "room" image and the text experiment of modernity.All these are the occurrence of "modernity" that can not be ignored in modern and contemporary literature.The second part is a Comparative study of specific writers,selecting four representative groups of Chinese and British writers: Eileen Chang and Lawrence,Ling Shuhua and Mansfield,Wang Anyi and Agatha Christie,Canxue and Shakespeare.To observe their literary concepts,ideological themes,creative techniques and other aspects.The forth chapter takes Eileen Chang and Lawrence as the research object,explores the two writers’ expression of human alienation at the arrival of modern civilization at the beginning of the 20 th century,and tries to analyze the reasons for the great differences between the two writers in terms of female consciousness and position from the perspective of gender.And try to use the modern psychological theory represented by Freud’s "complex" theory to observe the characteristics and transcendence of sexual repression,"Oedipus complex" and "Oedipus complex" in their works.The fifth chapter focuses on the creative relationship between Ling Shuhua and Mansfield,who,as short story writers,have the same times,similar social backgrounds,similar life experiences and common learning objects.it has created a lot of agreement and resonance between the two writers in literary taste,theme,style and skills.They pay attention to the women in the boudoir and put on a silent tragedy in the novel.They are good at showing a slight satire on reality in a quiet style,while their love of music and painting makes them integrate artistic thinking into their creation and highlight their elegant style.The sixth chapter focuses on Wang Anyi’s admiration and love for Agatha Christie.Wang Anyi got the inspiration of novel ideas from Agatha Christie’s detective novels,such as truth and fiction,reality and logic,and added elements of inferential novels in her creation to make the text interesting in storytelling.Although there are differences in the portrayal of human nature,narrative strategies and attitudes towards life,their creation also shows that in literary classics,popularity and artistry can coexist.The seventh chapter is the comparative interpretation of Canxue and Shakespeare.First of all,Canxue completed the analysis of her personal spiritual world and the display of her philosophical system through the modern interpretation of Shakespeare’s classical drama.secondly,Canxue insisted on depicting human soul with literary works under the inspiration of Shakespeare.ploughing deeply on the soil of human nature and spirit,we start to excavate people’s character from the inside.Finally,Shakespeare’s understanding of the contradiction of human nature also imperceptibly influenced the writing of personality split and self-trial in Canxue’s novels.The conclusion part tries to summarize that English literature infiltrates and nourishes Chinese modern and contemporary female writers in many levels and to what extent,and analyzes the differences between the two countries’ female literature in terms of historical evolution,time context,theme and so on.it also looks forward to the future and prospect of cross-cultural writing and dialogue between literature.