Research On Yonglie Ye And The "Golden Age" Of Science Fiction In The Early New Period

In 1978,after a ten-year silence in the Cultural Revolution,Chinese science fiction recovered rapidly because of the National Science Conference and the support of periodicals and publishing.There is a brief climax from 1978 to 1983 of the development of Chinese science fiction,which is known as "Golden Age".In addition,it is also the peak of the development of Chinese science fiction before the 1990s.There are some specific performance of this phenomenon,like the creative team was grown rapidly,and the creative level of Chinese science fiction was significantly improved compared with the previous generation.Besides,Chinese science fiction,which had been treated as marginal literature for a long time,gained a high degree of attention during this period,and the academic circle had also launched a wide and continuous discussion of it.Yonglie Ye is an important representative writer of science fiction in the new period.He is not only the main creative force of "golden age",but also the most important theoretical explorer in the contending situation of heteroglossia.Yonglie Ye’s creation of science fiction began in 1970s.Most of his early workshave the characteristics of juvenile and popularization of science.With the influx of western science fiction thoughts and the development of local science fiction,Yonglie Ye had made new breakthroughs in creative practice and theoretical exploration in the new period.He had active creative thinking and was willing to open up his horizons.Furthermore,he kept absorbing excellent creative experience at home and abroad.His works showed the high level of creation compared with some other works at the same period because of the social thinking and the depth of human nature in his own creations.Little Smart in Future,created by Yonglie Ye,is the first science fiction published after the Cultural Revolution.It caused great repercussions at that time,and was recognized as the highest achievement of children’s science fiction in the new period.Corrosion,another work of Yonglie Ye,shows its independent textual value in the social science fiction of this stage.Besides,Yonglie Ye also paid great attention to the exploration and attempt of new types of science fiction,so that he carried out some tests of genre.In addition to his active participation of creation,Yonglie Ye,who had the theoretical consciousness of science fiction for a long time,kept systematizing his theoretical concept of science fiction in the new period and wrote down theoretical works like Search on Scientific Literature and Art and so on.These works provided great theoretical support for his creation of science fiction and the development of science fiction in the new period.Yonglie Ye’s creation and theory have had a profound impact on other science fiction writers.In addition,the important transitional significance of the "Golden Age" among the whole history of Chinese science fiction can not be separated from the creation and theoretical exploration of science fiction in the early new period by Yonglie Ye.