Pain In Life And Comfort In Mind

In more than 200 stories written by Liu Qingbang,a well-known contemporary writer,about half of the stories are about coal mines,and they generally cover the three themes of countryside,coal mines and cities.This should be related to Liu's own life experience.Liu Qingbang,a farmer from Henan Province,worked as a coal miner for nine years before entering the China Coal Journal by writing,and later edited the literary magazine Sunshine of the Coal Mine Literature Federation System.Whether he was a miner or a journalist,he had a close relationship with coal mines.Liu Qingbang's writing about coal mine has a long time span.It has been more than 40 years since he published White Cotton in 1978(which is said that it was written in 1970 but never had the opportunity to publish).The narrative of the coal mine is generally synchronized with its writing time,and influenced by the literary trend in narrative style and stylistic form.For instance,his first successful workA Miner's Story was obviously influenced by modernistfiction around 1985,and could be listed in VanguardLiterature since then.As a recorder of contemporary coal mine life,Liu not only gives the coal mine a panoramic presentation,but also closely combines the social background involved with the production and operation of the coal mine and the family life of the miners.Some of the stories happened in large state-run coal mines and some in small private coal pits.The hero of the story may be either the miners and their families in large state-run mines or the peasants working in small private coal pits,the peasants around the coal minesalso could be the main characters of the narrative.All of works are deeply involved in the family and marriage of coal miners.In these coal mine narratives,the image of the coal mine that Liushaped is both clear and ambiguous,and the reason for this is not only closely related to the self-identity of the coal miners and their families in different periods,but also had the inseparable relations with the production and operation condition and ownership of the coal mine.The first chapter of the paper on this topic is entitled On the Coal Mine Image in Liu Qingbang'sCoal Mine Narrative,which explores the reality of the coal mineslie between urban and rural areas in the coal mine image-construction of Liu Qingbang,and the imagination of the coal mine of most peasant origin miners and their families.Chapter II?On the Portraits of figures in Liu Qingbang's Writings of Coal Mines,interprets the various characters in Liu's writings,as well as the complex ethical relations and interpersonal environment reflected behind their personality and fate in the coal mine world.Chapter 3?On the Mine Accident Narration and Dream Structure in Liu Qingbang's Coal Mine narrates all aspects of the accidents in coal mine production and the stories of the dead minerswhich Liu Qingbang mentions extensively,and further explores the cultural ecology of the coal mine and the living circumstances of the miners.This dissertation deals with different aspects of Liu's coal mine writing in these three chapters,which are interrelated and different from each other.It intends to make a “textual anthropological”survey of the coal mines in Liu's works,hoping to restore the living conditions of the miners and their families in different periods and conditions in their mutual arguments,and to get the emotional structure of humanitarianism in Liu's numerous coal mine narratives.