A Preliminary Study On Bai Wei's Writings And Foreign Literary And Cultural Trend

Bai Wei, who has been very influential in the contemporary literary world, is"one of the greatest women play writers in China"and has"the same kind of influence on the art of drama as Ding Ling on the novel". She had ever lived in Japan, the important stop of popularizing western civilization, for eight years. Undoubtedly, her style of writing was greatly influenced by foreign literature and culture.Bai Wei accepted or refused aestheticism in her writings, at the same time, she learned writing skills from symbolism and expressionism. Marxist view of woman is also a cultural trend which affected her feminist ideas in her literary works deeply. The study on Bai Wei's writings and foreign literary and cultural trend from the perspective of influences and acceptances benefices the judgment to the value of Bai Wei's writings in the contemporary literary world.The most striking and permanent characteristic of Bai Wei's learning from foreign culture is that she takes various kinds of writing methods comprehensively and puts the real life into writing with the principle of self-reality and society-reality. Actually, the writing method of foreign literature and the concepts that contained in traditional Chinese literature, which think that to write is to convey ideas, are blended in Bai Wei's writings. These are blends and collisions of two different cultural backgrounds and sights. Through the blends and collisions, Bai Wei has not only broadened the Western Modernist Literature but also deepened the Chinese sphere in expressionism. Furthermore, her feminist ideas heighten the development of man and woman to"harmony in gender studies"from the angel of realizing supplement between the two genders.Throughout Bai Wei's writing career there has always been an ever-lasting creed: being loyal to the real society and her own soul, the same as Lun Xun's belief of"take-ism". Thus the value of her writing lies in believing this very idea when faced such a feast of literary techniques. Her journey in exploring traditional Chinese literature open to foreign culture is significant.