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On Modern Chinese Local Novel And Intellectuals Statement

Posted on:2009-07-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D F MaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360248457080Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Local novel in world literature and the developing history of Chinese literature plays an important position. In its emergence and development of the long river of history, Chinese local novels have formed their own unique artistic style. As a unique phenomenon of Chinese literature in the 20th Century, native novel contains the specific cultural and historical contents from the beginning of its birth.Chinese local Literature links with the spirit of modern Chinese intellectuals, which produces a text of each other between the creative subject and the main work (creative object) , so that this can be a whole study of Chinese modern intellectuals how to explore the national modernization.This paper is divided into five parts: introduction; local literature and the plight of Chinese modern intellectuals; the statement to the local made by the Chinese modern intellectuals; native imagination and the human spirit of Chinese modern intellectuals; the conclusion.In the first part, this paper explains the purpose and significance of choosing this topic, related to research status quo and the main basis for choice and feasibility.The second part is "the native literature and the plight of modern Chinese intellectuals". It explains when the major expositions of Western civilization in various forms gradually undermined the traditional culture of stability and continuity and the overall implications of Chinese ideological and cultural direction of development, which resulted complex contradictions in the struggle against world outlook and values of Chinese modern intellectuals during the cultural transformation time. On the one hand, we have to agree with Western ideas and values rationally. On the other hand, the intellectuals were influenced by the Chinese traditional culture. They witnessed the invasion of Western civilization and the inherent various disadvantages in the Western civilization, which doomed to revitalize the national culture as their missions. So the era of complexity and historical accumulation of pressure lied on their shoulders . The experience in their minds and the excavation to the people's bad quality show their native complex. The Chinese modern intellectuals entered the cities experience the sense of wandering between cities and locals, traditional and modern conflicts. They are eager to know the outside modern civilized world, strive to break through the yoke of the traditional homeland and walk into the city bravely. They accept the Enlightenment of the new culture and the washing of the urban civilization. However, after experienced several years wandering, they memorize the grass, the tree, the people, the custom and folklore in the local world. The difference is that they clearly described by the experience in their minds and the excavation to the people' s bad quality, which converges the important local source of the Chinese Modern Literature and explores the struggle of the Chinese modern intellectuals in Chinese modern history prison. We may find that they heritage cultural body and accept the western civilization infection firstly. All of these do not belong to the local characteristics.The third part of this article is "Chinese modern intellectuals, the local statement." Since a combination of different structures of the Western modern sense and the cultural heritage, it makes Chinese modern intellectuals, some concerning about modern rational concepts and criticizing ancient native practices; some concerning about the modern correction of the traditional culture, and infatuating with the original rural field; some concerning about civil rationality and concerning about the combination of literature and the public. Their writing can generally be attributed to the following three statement forms. Namely: the critical statement of the modern enlightenment; the lyric statement of the modern retired and the missionaries statement of agreeing with by the local. Through the explanation to the Chinese Modern Local Literature, it is not difficult to see Chinese modern Native Literature showing different characteristics at different times.Following the third part of the exposition, the fourth part explains the rich native imagination contained by the Chinese modern intellectuals in their native novel versions. Local imagination shows that Chinese modern intellectuals pursuit national character and modern character and they find the disadvantages during the pursuit. Then they introspect the national character and modern character, which reflects their double attitudes towards the pursuit and hesitation to the national character and modern character. In addition, the local novel version in the Chinese modern intellectuals can also find the expression, such as, the obvious critical meaning of angry to their abandon; the national fable in the native imagination; rational explore to the human value. The spirit of Chinese modern intellectuals has a deep and sincere attachment to the local feelings. At the same time, all of these formed the attention to the rural areas and farmers, which is sympathetic and critical mixture. In the choice of the painful conflicts, in the emotional and rational, critical and infatuated choices, it shows the modern sense of Chinese modern intellectuals. Through the description to their hometown and narrative representation of the ignorance of the criticism, they give the hope of the nation, a deep understanding of human nature in the works which has demonstrated Chinese modern intellectuals' pursuit to the modern literature and the ultimate humanities concern.It can be said that the fifth part can draw the following conclusions: Chinese Modern intellectuals themselves face with the dual dilemma of choice. In the search for spiritual home on the road they can not advance and retreat and have to cherish the memory of native land Paradise, facing gloomy reality, questioning the future, entangling in the complex contradictions of emotion towards the mentality of the local love or hate. As the writers who accepted the modern sense, such as modern knowledge, the earlier experience, recipients and active communicators. They can not quickly find the door to enter the modern castle after isolate with their mother body. The city is still unfamiliar to them. They are only the middle persons between native and the cities. They always feel the pressure from the two-way. Compared to native, they are modern. But compared to the cities, they are not out of the deep-rooted native way and a city can not supply enough experience to build their literary imagination. However, in any case, the discourse based on modern science, human rationality has formed a majority of local literature. After all, they try to interpret and explain the local china ultimately by using this statement form.
Keywords/Search Tags:Native Literature, intellectuals, statement, native imagination
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