| Yan Geling is a famous contemporary writer, who was born in Shanghai and currently lives in the United States. She began writing novels when she was 20, but her writings were truly mature after she went abroad in 1990.The experience of staying abroad have not made any hindrance to Yan Geling's writing in Chinese, on the contrary, it assumes a new aspect which is objective and clear, when she looks back to the motherland.This article takes the characters in Yan Geling's novels as the point of departure. And it is divided into three parts to discuss them.First, it is the key to analyze the new immigration how to be considered as the argument of social relations and the nationality, as well as is anxious faced with the more direct crisis and the status.Next, in some degree, the immigration subject and the historical culture, which Yan Geling pays attention to, also were similar to her life experience. So there is a tie that joins the novels and the author together.Then, Yan Geling's works mostly reflects the life condition of Chinese. By means of t staring at the human nature and paying attention to the loser and the weak, she examines people's survival condition in the cultural conflict carefully. |
