The Study On Body Writing In Han Song’s "Hospital Trilogy"

As one of the ’triumvirate’ of new generation Chinese science fiction writers,Han Song specialises in the use of physical illness,physical pain and the manipulation of the body to deconstruct and critique the social reality in which the body is embedded.The body becomes a field for Han Song’s social critique,his exploration of the future of technology and his search for ultimate truth.The introduction introduces Han Song’s life and creative work,and reviews the research findings and limitations of Han Song’s work in the academic field.On this basis,the research value of the Hospital Trilogy and the theoretical connotations of the’body’ used are explained.The first chapter starts with the body image in the Hospital Trilogy,subdividing it into three different kinds of body images: the sick body,the female body and the artificial alien body.The chapter focuses on how the body is manipulated and transformed by technology,explores the body as a gaze and the possibility of its counter-gaze,discusses how the transformation of the female body identity constructs the symbol of the ’goddess’ with multiple connotations,and discusses how the artificial alien body is reduced to a symbol of human desire.The second chapter explores the body writing strategies in the Hospital Trilogy.Firstly,two different bodily encounters-pain and death-are used as entry points to explore how pain and death are used as frontiers to connect the whole text,ultimately leading to an exploration of the paradox of pain and the aesthetics of death.Secondly,the intersection of body,narrative and cognition in the text is analysed using psychoanalytic theory,resulting in a modern narrative dynamics text in the form of a triangle of ’narrative-cognition-truth’.The third chapter discusses the multiple connotations created by the combination of body and technology in the Hospital Trilogy.Firstly,through the transformation and manipulation of the sick body,Han Song expresses a critique of the social absurdity and alienation that is intensified in the context of technology.Furthermore,the body and technology act as the’door’and’key’to existence itself,and the prominence of the nature of technology,on the contrary,makes existence constantly obscured by technology.Finally,the hospital grows into a self-conscious body that moves from existence to nothingness in a metaphysical triad,giving the text an atmosphere characterised by despair and nothingness.The conclusion begins with an account of the general impression of the body presented by Han Song in The Hospital Trilogy,summarizes the relationship between body writing and science fiction narrative,and goes on to explain Han Song’s writing style among contemporary Chinese science fiction writers,and the intermediate position his style occupies.