The Cultural Revolution Narrative In Han Shaogong’s Novels

Han Shaogong is a writer who has a strong subjectivity and always keeps a suspicious attitude towards the mainstream ideology of this era. He insists on rational thinking. In his novels, he made rational exploration to the Cultural Revolution, which has a profound impact to contemporary China. This paper is based on all of Han’s related novels from the end of Cultural Revolution to nowadays. It included all the direct description of the Cultural Revolution, and novels which has the Cultural Revolution background, or has the Cultural Revolution plot in within. This paper explored the internal reflection, the enlightenment function and deconstruction among these novels. It tapped the thought resources in the history dust of the Cultural Revolution to promote the development of the national ideology as well as the social civilization. This paper is divided into five parts:The Introduction mainly explained the definition of the Cultural Revolution Narrative, the related theory and practical significance of this topic. There are also dynamic analysis of this topic at home and abroad, the research ideas and innovation of this paper.The first chapter is about the rational thinking of the Cultural Revolution in Han Shaogong’s novels. This part elucidated Han Shaogong’s reflective attitude of Exclusion and Inclusion towards that period of complex history by using the dialectic of positive and negative opposites compatibility. Exclusion is a negation to the disaster, which shows Han Shao gong’s serious historical outlook of Right and Wrong to the history of the Cultural Revolution. Inclusion is forgotten the suffering, which shows Han Shaogong’s view of history development of jumping off suffering emotional shackles and pursuing people-oriented.The second chapter analyzed the enlightenment significance of the Cultural Revolution Narrative in Han Shaogong’s novels from the perspective of spiritual beliefs. It is also a creative value question which surpasses history, literate as well as reality. He regards the Cultural Revolution as a thought matter, and explores its thought resources within it. He tries to accomplish history enlightenment, cultural enlightenment as well as growth enlightenment, but the point in the final analysis is the human enlightenment.In the third chapter, this paper discussed Han Shaogong’s pursuit of diverse thinking in the deconstruction of the disorder thinking of the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution pathosis is a kind of pathosis of thinking way, which is the extreme pathological change of the contradiction between history and reality. Han Shaogong tried to eliminate the contemporary social influence of the Cultural Revolution thinking through deconstruction of the dualistic thinking and collective off the crime of thinking and political totalitarian thinking.The conclusion part is about the value and significance of Han Shaogong’s Cultural Revolution Narrative. Value is mainly manifested in Han Shaogong’s exploration on the Develop and Back to bite relationship between culture and human nature. It also manifested in the spirit of bear in real moral crisis and knowledge crisis in his Cultural Revolution novels.