Sexual Problems: A Modern Interpretation Of Chinese Fiction In The 1920s

Eros issue is an important modern phenomenon of Chinese culture in the 1920s, whose essence is its outlook of modern Eros seeing mind and body as an integrated whole. Modern Eros is concerned with the modern transformation of human reason, emotion and biological instinct. Therefore, it plays an extremely important part in the changes of modern human image in the 1920s. Fiction in the 1920s also reflects this phenomenon of modern Eros issue, which brings the modern transformation in content and form to the 1920s novel. First, it brings the awakening of individuality marking the human existence. And here the 1920s fiction achieves its modern transformation of human image. Second, as an important aspect of human discovery, modern Eros also helps to reveal female awakening. But there is a distance between the female image imagined by male authors and the self-experience of female writers. Compared with the alienating fiction of male authors, the Eros experience of female writers is another kind of spectacle, which contains "double self-consciousness of being both human and female". Third, modern Eros also gives rise to the modern transformation of novelistic form. It brings changes to both point of view and narrative voice. And finally, the paradox of desire and reason contained in modern Eros plays a role in establishing criteria for fiction of the 1920s. The formula of "revolution plus love" is the natural growth of this paradox.Viewed in terms of the background of modern phenomenon of Eros issue, Chinese fiction of the 1920s displays a new vision. For instance, some important writers can be read in new ways, such as Yu Dafu, Zhang Ziping, Ling Shuhua, Lu Yin, Shen Congwen, Jiang Guangci, Liu Naou, and so on; the novel of Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School in parallel with new literature also reveals different meaning; and the progress of fiction of the 1920s can be interpreted in new ways.