A Person's May Fourth Movement: Eileen Chang Cultural Psychological Dilemma

Ailing Zhang is a legendary genius woman. The born background of feudal barons, made her aesthetic attitude appealing with the traditional culture. Modern western civilization deeply imprinted in her mind, which made her deviating from the mainstream literature about saving the nation. The first half of 20th century, Chinese culture is in a complicated situation than ever. Traditional culture and modern culture were in collision. This makes Chinese intellectuals at the time dilemma, She also can not escape this dilemma.This paper mainly discussed her cultural psychology with dilemma, which merged traditional emotion and modern characteristic together in her memory. This paper composes of three parts.The conclusion was drawn in the first part that Ailing Zhang was trapped in the dilemma that traditional culture and modern characteristic were merged together when she grown up, by analyzing her family and experience of life in her childhood.Ailing Zhang's cultural psychology is discussed in the second part. Though she had inherited the strength of The "May 4^th" New Literature, she consciously deviated from the new literature creation tide, showed a unique cultural reference choice. Many writers have followed in the trend of modern literature, but her literary express a different direction. She stared at and pried into the traditional China with marginalization and anti-pop attitude, that is so familiar. Her literary, therefore, at that time created the characteristic style which combined the alienation and the attachment of Chinese modern mainstream-literature.Ailing Zhang's the cultural relativism was discussed in the third part. She held'Uneven Contrast'against the binary opposition, emphasized on the weaving of various factors. In one sense her cultural psychology is a combination of tradition and modernity, east culture and west culture. The cultural psychology of Ailing Zhang, which like a dish of salt-pepper type, led directly to her literary style with the marginalized view and the scattered cultural state.So, Tradition and modernity were mutual in her knowledge, She had made the modern culture and modern civilization dissolved in the traditional performance practices, and form deep modernity style. Furthermore, Because of the optional and indecisive absorption the spirit of The "May 4^th"New Literature, history and reality, her literary has a strange metaphor property.