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The Culture Of Beijing And The City Women Character Building In Tie Ning’s Novels

Posted on:2015-07-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H T QiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330431957601Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Tie Ning is one of the most important writer in the literature of the new era. The culture of Beijing deeply inside her spiritual home because most of her childhood and youth spend in Beijing, and it is also the source of her writing. As is known to all, culture is the mainly source for writer’swrit ing. It is obviously to found that the internal mental relationship between Tie Ning’s writing and the culture of Beijing through the culture of Beijing and the attention of women character building, furthermore it is better to understand the value and significance of the writer’s writing based on the connotation of the script. Above all, this paper is divided into three parts to discuss the thesis.The first part proclaims that Beijing is always a city within spirituality by looking back Tie Ning’s childhood in Beijing.There is a relationship type woman-man-Beijing in Tie Ning’s novels which referred to Beijing. In the novel, women have a strong feeling for the man from Beijing even though breaking up. It is apparently a type of relationship between man and women, actually that is the reflection of women’s sentiment for Beijing. In fact, the expectation and nostalgia of novel character is Tie Ning’s self-reflection.The second part mainly discusses the connection between the culture of Beijing and women character building from carefully reading the novel as well as the analysis of the character. From Tie Ning’s writing. Women is always the personalization symbol of the spiritual culture of Beijing. There is a righteousness tradition’other people prior’in the Hutong culture of Beijing, and the girl Bai Daxing who was born at Hutong is the continuing of the spirit. She is sincere, kind and modest. She feels disappointed for herself after breaking up for many times, but her warm-hearted still inside her soul, and she is known by the Critics field as the Modern Oriental Woman. The culture of Beijng not only has the righteousness side, but also the political side. Beijing is a cultural city as well as political one. At the one side, it is always the capital of many dynasties for thousand years; at the other side, It is influenced by the culture of Yan and Zhao dynasty which focus on the reality and mainstream ideology. Si Qiwen is extremely sensitive to the politics and peruses the power in all her lifelong. She know exactly how to make the culture of neighbour countries become an effective political tool, and she walk on the stage of era step by step through the contest of the street director. Above all, Si Qiwen is the embody of political and cultural Beijing.The third part discusses the deeply impact of the culture of Beijing for the Tie Ning’s writing. From the novel, it is obviously found that except for the impact of the culture of Beijing, the writing concept of the writer also can find the reflection of the culture of Beijing.The distinctive social status system in Confucian culture is easily accepted and approved by the mainstream society because the mortal value system catering to the government. As the capital city, Beijing inherits the system naturally and the system has become the significant part in the culture of Beijing. In Tie Ning’writings, the relationship between man and women based on the power which influenced by the distinctive social status. There are conflicts and avulsion behind the harmonious marriage in Tie Ning’s novels like The Spouse in B City, the Encounter in Fenghuang Tai, Unceasing Mouth and Faint Goat as well as in the novel The stack of Wheat Straw, Yang Qing the novel character who lost the instinct of the women’s love by the impact of the system of distinctive social status. In addition, the childhood life in Beijing enlightens Tie Ning accepting the mainstream ideology and awakening the political ideology, and she is abled to adapt to her political status much faster. Comparing with other female writers, it is easily found the historical consciousness and social responsibility in Tie Ning’s writing, and all of these come from the consciousness of responsibility in her political status. From the aspect of cultural responsibility under the political status, it is better to analysis the reason why Tie Ning’s writing is better than other female writers.Tie Ning is a writer who expects to use the literature for warming the world, however, her political status and social responsibility did not restrict her writing. Based on her experience in Beijing and the sentiment of the political culture, she built some novel characters which make the image of Beijing abundantly. From the basic of the description of Beijing, Tie Ning’s writing is the inheritance of the New literature writer like Lao She, furthermore she expands the exist of the women character who influenced by the culture of Beijing and presents her own characterism.
Keywords/Search Tags:Tie Ning, The Culture of Beijing, Righteousness, Politics, Status
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