Countryside: The Regional Construction In Chinese Novels Of The New Era

"Regional construction" would be the discourse and the perspective I take, to complete the following analysis. From the root-seeking literature in the 80s last century, along with the accession into the 90s, a great number of Chinese novels have been rendered with a special focus on the countryside as well as its local niche. My thesis, however, will be looking through the changes being made in the construction of such heimisch themed literature works. In that way, the development of such literature phenomenon will be crystal clear. For the sake of reasoning the formation of this literature genre, a comparative methodology would be adopted, the consideration of the global literature – as the soil for such reasoning process – will go hand in hand. In the novels being analyzed in the thesis, "countryside" is not only one of the geographical factors, as those traditional novels may use, neither is it a platform where scenes and plots can be developed and figures can be established. Rather, this factor has been served in a way that the author consciously, voluntarily makes changes to it. And the rural elements are not simply being portrayed as a realistic, simplistic catalyzer, but become the backbone of the novel. The authors' personal and unique experiences can also be conveyed by such elements. By and large, the construction of those rural elements has become the medium and carrier in which a storyteller's cultural and historical perception can be touched.