| Since the establishment of People’s Republic of China,our country has been committed to the country’s industrialization and pursued the goal of socialist modernization.In the field of literature and art,the state adheres to the policy of "literary and artistic services for the workers,peasants and soldiers",and has created a working-class literature and art army that includes intellectuals and workers,peasants and soldiers.The state calls on intellectuals to go to factories and workshops to make literary creations,and at the same time support front-line workers to learn literary writing,which has set off an upsurge in the creation of industrial novels throughout society.Hu Wanchun is a worker writer who grew up in Shanghai’s industrial base.He enjoys the country’s policy benefits for worker training,and has completed a huge transformation from semi-illiterate to authorship in the process of learning.Hu Wanchun is good at discovering social problems and is familiar with the production lines of the steel industry.Therefore,during his thirty-two years of writing,he wrote a lot of interesting anecdotes about the iron and steel factory,and he was called the "social issue novelist" and the "steel master".Worker writers represented by Hu Wanchun grew up in the front line of industry.They are both laborers and creators.Their creative style is simple and authentic.From their novels,we can see the historical process of my country’s socialist industrialization.Hu Wanchun’s novels are full of imagination about modernity.In his writing,the working people are industrial workers with advanced ideas and strong skills.The party members,cadres,skilled workers,and pioneer women in the novel all exude "a boiling,galloping atmosphere of the times".The mechanized and automated large-scale industrial production model and the industrial space with beautiful ecological environment have become the standard configuration of modern factories.Industrial production efficiency has been improved in technological innovations,creating production miracles one after another.In the process of industrial modernization,the workers showed that they had the revolutionary ideal of their homeland and the lofty spirit of dedication to the country in their hearts,and conveyed the pursuit of rational and free values of the times.In his novels,Hu Wanchun not only portrays the production landscape of modernity,but also tries to construct a modern world with its own logic.He gave a few characters in the novel a modern way of thinking,tried to use pioneers to drive the collective revolutionary movement to complete the reconstruction of the industrial order,and at the same time introduced the non-modern narrative of the other,through the comparison of the two to complete the modern self confirm.The modern industrial order got rid of the traditional family-based production model,combined with specialized and refined production lines and supporting modern management models to realize the efficient operation of modern factories.The construction of modernity space in the novel distinguishes three dimensions.There is not only the so-called industrial production environment space,but also the historical space of socialist construction and the emotional space of industrial sustenance.Although Hu Wanchun tried his best to depict a beautiful blueprint for socialist modernization in his novels,it also showed the contradictions brought about by industrial production,implied thinking about modern society and critique of instrumental rationality.In the process of modernization of the country,there are still traces of tradition.Workers are imprisoned by the traditional family ethics of respect for the elderly and father and son,and lose the autonomy of choice.The identity of professional workers invaded the family,destroying the original normal order of the family;the expansion of instrumental rationality suppressed the rationality of value,and the concept of the supremacy of production began to become the power to dominate workers. |
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