The Canonization Ofthe Golden Cangue And The Transformation Of The Modern China Ethic

The Golden Cangue,which was published in 1943,is the most representative work of Zhang Ailing.This novel was first published in the Magazine,and got the readers' likes and the Shanghai literary world's accept quickly.It can be said that The Golden Cangue was very popular in that time.However,when The Golden Cangue was hot in Shanghai,it was marginalized in other area and was rarely mentioned.After 1949,The Golden Cangue experience a period of ofinactivity which lasted nearly 30 years and finally disappeared in the history of literature.Until the 1980s,getting the benefit from the social transformation and the upsurge of Zhang Ailing,The Golden Cangue which had disappeared in the mainland for many years became a classics of the modern and contemporary Chinese literature and the darling of the mass culture.During the half centuries from the publishing of The Golden Cangue,there were peak as well as trough,the canonization of The Golden Cangue was very rough.People rarely realized that the canonization of The Golden Cangue was closely related to the transformation of the modern China's ethics.The huge changes in the canonization of The Golden Cangue was deeply affected by the transformation of the society ethics.It was the new ethics which advocated individual freedom and gender equality and the trend of being away from politics in Shanghai that gave The Golden Cangue necessary room to live.When it came to the rear area dominated by the party ethic and patriotism,it was sure to be unadaptable and marginalized.When the ethic of the CCP became the ethic of the country and went to extreme gradually,The Golden Cangue,following with Zhang Ailing,was forgotten by literary history.After the Cultural Revolution and disaster of the ultra-left times,the chaotic order of ethic was reorganized,the value of individual was recognized and the power of the authority weakened.In thi background,The Golden Cangue which was hidden because of politics got the chance to came back to people's field of view and even became a lucky dog in the revalue trend.With the development of the socialist market economy system,people's ethic was shocked.The Golden Cangue which was a combination of elegance and popularity and mainly showed the secular life exactly appear to the hedonism and consumerism of people,became a hot good of the mass media.what's more,when the market economy gradually improved people's life,it also made people feel lonely and void.The Fin de Siecle Mood was exactly suited to the desolate keynote of The Golden Cangue.The meaning of one literary is multiple.In different times,people's emphasis and understanding is different,the evaluation about this literary is also various.When we refer to the canonization of The Golden Cangue,we can find the track of the transformation of modern China ethic,that is to say,the canonization of The Golden Cangue is one side of the history of the modern China ethic transformation.