Research On Metro Modern Girls In Liu Na'ou's Novels

Liu Na'ou is an very important person of Chinese Neosensulism in the late period of 1920's and the early of 1930's.He is also a pioneer in modern novels. He only published a book which collected most of his works named Metro Scene. In the book, Liu Na'ou used an acute sense of eyes to touch the dream city Shanghai which owned splendid fashion and fancy feelings and he writed it with many strange and unfamiliar words and sentences. It's welcomed by readers.The metro modern girls are always leading actresses in the novels. They all have novel figures and temperament and do many unusual things. It is not noly different from Chinese classical Feminine image, but also modern works which are contemporaneous with Liu Na'ou. They are the charming metro scene in Shanghai in the period. This paper intends to get a general and elaborate view of the metro modern girls in Liu Na'ou's novels.The first chapter chiefly analyzes the portrait of metro modern girls which are filled with many western heterogeneity. We have finally come to a conclusion that the portrait of metro modern girls is not rooted in author's envision which is far away from Chinese tradition and reality, but based on Shanghai's prevalence, fashion, consumption and business.The second chapter makes a summary of a mode of love of metro modern girls and compares with Chinese traditional mode of love. This chapter illustrates the contributions about women liberation after May 4th and explores the hidden man's power in the novels.The third chapter summarizes Chinese trational feminine image and brings metro modern girls into Salome's type.But in actually fact, the metro modern girls are not pioneer in women liberation, but a traditonal part of man's consciousness.