City Writing Of Hankou Presented In The "Red Dust" Trilogy

The "Red Dust" trilogy( "Pregnant City", "Spiritualism", "Delivery World"), which was written by Wuhan-writer Jianxin Peng, regarding Hankou's merchant and comprador Zongxiang Liu's throughout life as the descriptive object. This novel covers a very wide range, and has a detailed description about people in various trades, custom and habit of Hankou, which was also called the modern "Riverside Scene on the Pure Brightness Festival" of Hankou. Peng created this trilogy via dialect, and merged the grand events took place in Hankou together with the numerous and disorderly vulgar life, carrying out an in-depth depiction about modern Hankou's economic, political, cultural and people's livelihood, which aptly demonstrated the complexity of Hankou's modern society. The dissertation presented herein explored the depiction about the modern urban image, the city experience, the city and the residents of Hankou, as well as the unique narrative approach and the meaning demonstrated in the "Red Dust" trilogy by the means of combining intensive reading with Hankou's local cultural feature and cultural background of writing.This dissertation was designed in the following five aspects, including the old Hankou's urban image, the citizen image of "the legendary bird with nine heads", the Hankou's dialect and custom, the artistic characteristics and the literary value of the "Red Dust" trilogy. The first chapter exhibited the Hankou's urban image from the viewpoint of the Hankou's docks, the Hankou' shantytowns, the back Lake, the Flower House Street, the Liu's mansion, and the Green Gang and the Chinese freemasons in modern Hankou. The second chapter analyzed the Hankou's people in various trades, which included the femininity image, the Hankou's merchants, the spalpeen, and the evolutionary party, elucidating the unique feature of the trilogy in depicting the characters in detailed. The third chapter narrated the modern Hankou's custom and habit described in the trilogy, which included the applications of Hankou's dialect and folk adage, reappearing the various old trades of modern Hankou, introducing the modern Hankou's entertainment and cooking culture in detailed, and depicting the Hankou's residents' living state during the war period in depth, all mentioned above had a significance in the Chinese literature to some extent. The fourth chapter investigated the artistic characteristics of the "Red Dust" trilogy form the following aspects: the influence of regional culture on the novel writing, omniscient and omnipotent depictive viewpoint, the description of the presence of writers. The last chapter analyzed the literary value and meaning of the "Red Dust" trilogy via the following two aspects: the description about the Hankou's social complexity and dialect writing.Lucubrate the Peng's "Red Dust" trilogy from diverse aspects mentioned above is the supplement and improvement for a systematic study of the "Chinese Wuhan-style novel", which is also conducive to the development and prosperity of the "Chinese Wuhan-style literature".