A Study On The Phenomenon Of "Zhang Ailing Hot" In Mainland Literature

Ailing Zhang is a legendary writer of literary history in the 20th century. Her "Legend" place mainly reflected in the twice "Ailing Zhang hot" phenomenon in Shanghai "enemy-occupied zone" in the 1940s and the mainland in the 1990s. To study the twice "Ailing Zhang hot" phenomenon in the literary acceptance horizon in the mainland, we not only need to clarify the acceptance of synchronic and diachronic, but also pay attention to the social, political and cultural context, the change of readers’ acceptance motivation and psychology with the social and historical development. The reason why literary acceptance object-writer and works can win the readers’ sought at different ages in the cultural context of the changing lie in literary acceptance object fit the readers’ changing expectation horizon to different degrees, in addition to the charm of literary acceptance object itself. So, this paper mainly interprets the twice "Ailing Zhang hot" phenomenon from the four aspects:Zhang Ailing literary phenomenon of ups and downs in the mainland literary horizon of acceptance, specific political and cultural context of the mainland, the reader in specific period, literary accept object.This thesis is divided into six parts. The first part is introduction. In this part we briefly description the "Ailing Zhang hot" research status and research value from the perspective of the mainland literature acceptance. The second part analyzes the phenomenon of ups and downs of Ailing Zhang literary in literature acceptance perspective in mainland. This part divided into four stages, and the main highlights are the first "Ailing Zhang hot" phenomenon in Shanghai "enemy-occupied zone" and the second "Ailing Zhang hot" phenomenon in mainland in the 1990s. The third part analyzes the relation between "Ailing Zhang hot" phenomenon and literary acceptance in the specific political and cultural context of the mainland, including two aspects, one is the political and cultural environment of specific period in the twice "Ailing Zhang hot" phenomenon. Shanghai formed "low pressure" of the political and cultural environment in the period because of "enemy-occupied zone" "chaos" society. The mainland formed a relatively free and democratic political culture environment in 1990s with the deepening of reform and opening up. Although the political and cultural environment of the two periods is different, the creation or dissemination of Ailing Zhang is similar to some extent. The other is the guiding role of literary and cultural factors specific period to "Ailing Zhang hot" phenomenon. Shanghai "enemy-occupied zone" formed a special literary and cultural factors, which mainly reflected in pursue of Ailing Zhang’s alternative writing to women and family in the development of popular literary. Mainland society is at an important transition period 1990s and various aspects of social life showed a new scene. The literary and cultural factors related to the "Ailing Zhang hot" are "Prose" and incoming Western literary trends. The fourth part focuses on the readers’ living conditions and horizons choice at particular time, grasping readers’ changes of expectation horizon to "Ailing Zhang hot" phenomenon. In the specific political and cultural context, reader in Shanghai enemy-occupied zone is facing turbulent wartime life, but reader in mainland 1990s is in a peaceful life. The readers in two different living conditions produce similar survival mentality. The reader widely owns loneliness, helplessness and anxiety, as well as the strangeness of human nature. The fifth part major shows the unique charm of writer and work to "Ailing Zhang hot" phenomenon from literary acceptance object. On the one hand, we discuss the personal Tales of Destiny directly or indirectly affects "Ailing Zhang hot" phenomenon in these two specific periods. On the other hand, we discusses the charm of Ailing Zhang works can make reader to gain new insights through the era, which highlighting the impact of the charm of the works to "Ailing Zhang hot" phenomenon. The sixth part is a summary of this thesis.