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Material Writing In Zhang Henshui's Modern Novels

Posted on:2020-07-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Y LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2415330575956268Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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After the 1990 s,the study of material writing in the Chinese mainland was rapidly expanded with the development of the market economy and the expansion of the material culture.The emergence of China's social urban consumer market can be traced back to the 1920 s and 1930 s.The writing of urban material has a precedent in the history of Chinese literature,such as the citizen popular novels in the early years of the Republic of China,the new sensation school and Zhang Ailing's novels in the literature of Shanghai group in the 1930 s and 1940 s.Urban material writing in the period of modern Chinese literature,after a few decades of political writing across the founding of New China,is together with the urban material writing in the 1990 s to form a Chinese novels' history of material writing.At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China,the material writing of social popular novels describing the new Chinese urban consumer market is of great significance to the display of the new and old Chinese society.Zhang Henshui,a popular novel in the modern literature period,is bound to be an important literary power to show the characteristics of this era.The material writing of Zhang Henshui not only shows the urban society in the first half of the 20 th century,but also the rural society under the impact of material civilization.It is also an important space for material writing.The writing of rural society is an important feature of Zhang Henshui'novels distinguishing from other popular novelists.Zhang Henshui's material writing about urban,rural and special time and space of the Chinese society show the condition of transition period from the 1920 s to the 1940 s.It reflects the characteristics of the times when Chinese cultures collide and fuse with each other.And deeply the inner anxiety and confusion felt by people in times of turmoil.At the same time,the main clues through the material writing of Zhang Henshui's novels are the return to the natural attributes and use value of the material,and the criticism of the commodity attributes and commercial values.What emerges beyond this clue is the description of the material binary system,within the clues is the dual character of Zhang Henshui's experience self and narrative self,the traditional literati and the new intellectuals.Finally,back to the literary text,the material writing of Zhang Henshui's novels on the structure of the text reflects the pioneering enhancement of Zhang Henshui's novels.Using material writing as a entry point,this paper peeks into the narrative and expression of Zhang Henshui's modern novels on the living state of Chinese society,culture and people in the first half of the 20 th century,and then examines the social conditions of the Republic of China through the characteristics and laws of his material writing transformation,as well as the renewal of its own creative methods and ideas.The change of Zhang Henshui's material writing characteristics has its deep cultural psychological logic,reflecting its immediate relationship with the trend of the times that prevailed in modern literature.Zhang Henshui faced the pioneering culture advocated at that time.The process of self-awareness from alienation to selective compromise to chase was regarded as an important psychological state that Zhang Henshui was inspired by mainstream literature.As a literary intellectual and a professional reporter,Zhang Henshui,whose psychological logic of the transformation of material writing reflects the cognition and understanding of the situation of society,culture and people in the face of changes in the times,as well as the response and interaction of the changing trend of the times.
Keywords/Search Tags:Zhang Henshui, Material Writing
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