On The North Island Overseas Prose Writing

After emigration of the late 80s, Bei Dao has been drifting in a travel status.Bei Dao said "language experience is consistent." But away from the mother culture of conflict and different cultures mix, coupled with years of travel experience, it is undeniable, and his writing style, important changes have taken place . Early Writing in a strong political consciousness, the transfer for the exploration of universal human nature to deal with. Images, emotions and ideas are more single connection between the way to change the language, the emotion toward the simple, restrained direction.Bei Dao as a poet of historical mission and responsibility as the spiritual content all through his creative process, and extend to his prose, the prose in the North Island living abroad for nearly two decades, both the philosophy of life is drifting penetration, or the historical legitimacy of the identity construction efforts, or the context of Chinese literature in the world release of the new creative space, which runs through the spiritual connotation. Prose style after residing abroad, the poet of a new attempt, the spiritual content of such cross-cutting, not only in the prose has a distinctive expression, and constantly and to issue a new spirit of the character. Contemporary poetry as an important poet, living abroad, mainly in prose after the North Island, facing language and cultural heterogeneity and conflict, the wandering soul and spirit, identity and anxiety, all this both in his prose reflected. Chinese literature in particular, placed in the context of this large, Bei Dao prose should not be viewed merely as a literary phenomenon and became a cultural phenomenon.