New Approaches To Xiao Hong

This thesis takes the historical, social, and political factors into consideration. By reading her works in depth the thesis presents Xiao Hong as writing subject had complex feelings when she was faced up with the subject of brokenness and fracture in terms of historical time dimension and space of country. Her anxiety toward history was reflected in her later works whose lyric and ironic style seemed divisive on the surface. However, it is closed related to the thoughts on the part of the writer toward the modern nation and the subject of modern national state.Xiao Hong's 10 years writing period can be divided into three:the early period (on class discourse), the middle period (anti-war literary) and the last period (on national state subject). Her composition is integrated and continuous for she sticks to self-subject as a writer and her perspective from the lower class people who think about being the subject of the nation. Moreover, in a certain period she employed different forms to express her anxiety which indicates that her combination of content and from is on the trend of deepening. The division of her works is not abrupt but these three themes in her works are overlapping and continuous in terms of time and the depths of the texts. Or rather, these three themes are the main thread of thought with different origins in time.This thesis presents the integrity and continuity of Xiao Hong's works in order to explain her motivation or driving force to write that is to form a powerful self-subject confronted with the broken outside world. The writer had the longing to reconstruct the wholeness of modern China which is buried in her not fully comprehended literary works. This modern experience is the message of the awaking of feminist consciousness after the May Fourth Movement interweaved with the forming of national state. This thesis paying attention to the relationships between literature and social system as well as literature and nation puts the writer in historical and literary context and depicts a more complicated left-wing literary prospect under the theoretical framework. The aim of the thesis is to provide some historical references to better understand the writer's composition and modern China.