Magnificence And Sentimentality

Li Bihua is a famous woman writer in Hong Kong literary arena, and her works involve such a lot of regions of literature as novel, drama essay and so on. At the same time, movies adapted from her novels have repeatedly obtained awards and a large audience. Arrogantly, Li Bihua paces between "the refined" and "the vulgar" so as to achieve fame and fortune .As a result, she has become an odd in Hong Kong literature domain.According to the social background of Hong Kong, I attempt to study her novels and its characteristic, analyze its splendid contents and complicated ties with culture, so as to exhibit its multiple visage and benefit the studies on Hong Kong literature and culture.The chapter one started with culture context and literature background, introduced prosperous situation after 70's of Hong Kong popular literature, which was characterized by entertaining aspect, in order to promulgate the social reasons that propel the creative work of Li Bihua.The chapter two analyzed narrating characteristic of Li Bihua novels including odd theme new composed story, new feminism angle of view. She mixed history, Social science, esthetics and philosophy in novels while exaggerating desires of characters. As a result, her novels appealed to both cultured and popular tastes.The chapter three compared Li Bihua with Yi Shu and Liang Fengyi according to prosperous woman writing background in 80's Hong Kong. It analyzed their similarities and differences in love, female doom and human nature. It stressed the intention of Li Bihua 's works and reflected prosperous scene of Hong Kong love story.The chapter four elaborated language, structure characteristic of Li Bihua's novels and concluded her gorgeous style...