The Vanguard Of The 1990s The 20th Century Chinese Novels,

Vanguard represents the most aggressive trend, refusing tradition and breakingconvention. Vanguard literature that is different from conventional literature exists inany times. After the Cultural Revolution, China steps into a new era of modernizationconstruction. With the central proposition of modernization, western thoughts ofmodernism and postmodernism pour into China, and the writing trend of modernismappears in the development of literature, vanguard novel being the representative ofthis trend. However, as the forms and skills of vanguard novel are gradually repeated,the vanguard's spirit of exploration and creation fades away in the trend, but it doesn'tmean that the spirit disappears in the writing of contemporary Chinese literature.In the novel writing of 1990s, the factors of vanguard appear in all kinds of novelall the same. Firstly, the persistence of vanguard still exists in vanguard novels and theattitude different from conventional literature still exists after the transition. Secondly,the attitude of independence in the writing of the late generation exerts the quality ofnot being compromising thoroughly. The writing of late generation is different fromthe vanguard novel in the attitude of independence and determination. Their writingcomes to the life that-is nearer to the writers and the readers, in order to find out themetaphysical meaning of life. Finally, in the feminist writing, the distinct sense offemale sex provides the feminist writing with significance of vanguard because of theawakening and rising of the female writers' sex consciousness and the establishmentof the unique female sex consciousness of their own.By analyzing and interpreting the works of the writers in 1990s after the gradualdeclining of vanguard novel in the late 1980s, the purpose of the paper is to summaryclearly the expression of vanguard spirit in novel writing in 1990s.