| As one of the representative writers of contemporary Chinese feminist literature, Hong Ying is much more famous abroad than at home, and her works should be valued greatly in Chinese literary circles.Being persevere in the fulfillment of their dreams and not compromising to the reality, the female characters in Hong Ying's novels share a special quality of being different from the tradition. In her novels, Hong Ying shatters off the gist of "being temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous" in traditional Chinese feminist literature and publicizes a strong feminist consciousness. The female psychology in her novels is a reflection of the transformation of Chinese history and the common predicament of human beings at the end of the 20th century. Affected by her early life, Hong Ying began her novel writing and in her novels, she pursues the realization of her dreams like "daughter of the sea" and active construction when overturning the tradition, and she clings to the aestheticism with the elite position of narration.Striking her root in Chinese culture, Hong Ying accepts the western cultural current open-mindedly and walks at the edge between tradition and modernity. So, Dithyramb spirit and Sartre's existentialism get the art emersion in her novels. Hong Ying and her works are the combination of self-contradiction, for on one hand, she publicizes personality, on the other hand, she pursues to transcend divinity. With religious ideas such as Christianity and Buddhism contained in her works, she wavers between the two attitudes of renouncing and entering human society.Of course, Hong Ying's novel writing has its deficiency, mainly in its spirit, for the writer is not deep in revealing human nature and the real world and she relies too much on her personal emotions and experiences. However, we can still feel her desperation and resistance, amiability and incisiveness in her works, and her writing style of publicizing without the loss of restraint becomes a special scene in contemporary literary circles. |
