Yang Liguang’s Creative Research

Yang Liguang is a writer of great achievements since the new period, especially in the achievement of reportage. Based on realistic creation concept, Yang Liguang based on the social and historical development, facing the real life, exploring the secret inner world of the characters.The introduction mainly introduces the basic situation of Yang Liguang’s creation and the academic research status of his works.The first chapter is to analyze and discuss his works of greatest achievement in the report literature from the aspect of revealing the individual experience, excavating the universal humanity to the philosophy level of deep thinking. The first section introduces the abnormal humanity narrative of the works, the abnormal writing of desired City, highlighting the author’s probe spirit of the changeability in human nature by making some analysis of his works such as "A Soul Without Home","Beautiful Bubbles"and "A Startled Case"; then expresses his views of value as intellectuals by praising the virtues of human. The second section mainly about Yang Liguang’s heritage of national and time spirit in the new century. As many other cross-century reportage writers, Yang Liguang also grasps the pulse of the times firmly, pays close attention to the people’s lives and is good at reflecting the social hot issues. With the deepening of his creation, he cast his sights more into the social creatures under the disasters. Extreme situations can test the nature of human more than in the ordinary life situation, but also can show the innermost thing in humanity. Focusing on the analysis of "The Line of Life and Death ", "The Plague, the Shadow of Man’ SARS’origin"and "Zhongshan Road:the Quest for the Footprints of Modern China’s Modernization", discussing the heroes’ideal spirits and universal sympathetic feelings under the emergencies; the third section makes analysis on the artistic characteristics of the reportage works from four aspects of characters, feelings, structures and writing styles.The second chapter discusses the creating of his novels to show that the creativity level of Yang Liguang in his novel-writing is continue to improve through the efforts and precipitation. In the special historical period, the values were unbalanced, the ethic was degraded, the rationality of life existence had been questioned. Depicting the daily life of the people, writing the tragic fate of the characters to reflect the author’s introspection on history. The author examined the individual survival status in special historical period, and chose a mysterious, horrible and even absurd narrative skill, using the change of concrete house construction in the historical process to reflect the change the fate of the characters.The third chapter analyzes his scholarly prose which combines with the current reality of some specific person, things, cases,making some remarks on them, these "thinking" and "feeling" be put closely together,criticizing the current affairs, or conveying the rational thinking.In the fourth chapter, appreciating his scholarly prose, erudition, thoughtfulness, combing with present reality, expresses some thoughts on some specific person,objects, cases, puts these "thinking" and "feeling" closely together, criticizing or conveying the rational thinking.