| Jia ping-wa is a Chinese contemporary writer who pays close attention to social reality. With persistent efforts, he has been expressing his care and concern to China's destiny in his work. A dynastic history about China's social transition can be represented in his several novels. China's economic reconstructuring and socialist construction dated from 1980's. Among Jia Pingwa's works, there are six important novels, namely, Impetuous, The Abandoned Castle, White Night, Tumen, Old Gao's Village and Shannxi Opera, depicting what happened under such circumstances. These chosen target texts represent changes of"Modernity Narrative"in a clear and logical way. That is from high expectations of achievement of modernization and improvement of productive forces and national quality and full confidence in future at the preliminary stage till reconsideration on disadvantages of reform and social cracks in 1990s, what's worse, confusion for future development. Impetuous gives a faithful representation of people's impulsive attitude towards social transition at its preliminary stage , though critical and enlightened, generally in an optimistic tone. However, in The Abandoned Castle and White Night, pioneering passion has been replaced by doomsday degrading decadent sentiment. They convey the sorrow and helplessness for the crack of traditional cultural psychological structure under attack of modernity. Modern people suffer from the loss of their true nature and mental wandering. While in Tumen , with the overwhelming process of modernity. Jia Ping-wa has already walked out of cherishing the memory of traditions, and seems to find ideal Utopia sustenance and then starts out to conduct double criticism on disadvantages of traditions. All ideals and hopes were destroyed in Shannxi Opera. As the rural and agricultural civilization tend out die out, the historical integrity and continuity declared its disintegration The overall emotional tone is at a loss rather than painful. |
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