Enthusiasm And Nihility

Among the literature sight of 1990s, Tao Haoming' s historical novel inditement accounts for its unique meaning and merit. There are a series of antinomies running through his inditement:In his inditement, the enthusiasm of "salvation" of traditional literati and the nous of the modern intellectuals bring him to the affectional sympathism and the interest to probe, analysis with & to the long-concealed late Qing Dynasty and scholar-bureaucrat, which leads him tide over hindrances into the nearly two decades' inditement of historical novels and compose a gorgeous and massive epic for the great times interwinded with abasement and risistance, innovation and hovering and the affections and fate of people in the very times.Tang Haoming accomplishes his unique creation by his in-depth experience and observation on the intellectuals' heart and fate in the particular historic changeover. He selected the traditional literati lived on the special historical transferring trend, and drew -out the cultural vicissitude, the headstream and the difficult beginning of modernization, and he successfully described the literati' s souls in the course of the cultural transfer and the impalpability of history and life. Intertwined with the image"the last scholar-bureaucrat" here contains inevitable heaviness and nihility which emerges after the author' s experience and observation on history and life. While behind the scholar-bureaucrats' adhesion, sortie and maze exists the author' s pondering on history and life. The probation into"modernization" , the unvarying thesis going across the 20th century and the contemporary trend of thought, is realized through the resurvey and criticism on traditional intellectuals' cultural personality and the trend of historyin Tang' s works.Among the social trend of thought in 1990s, like Eryuehe and Ling Li, Tang Haoming have made great market success as well as his plentiful artistic achievement. While they are widely misread: the public concentrated their eyes on the historical secrets and the tussle of power and tricks, but not the ultimate probation on history and life, on which they had spent most of their energy and heart. As some publications and movie or TV works have confirmed. Is this that resulted in their "hibernation of inditement" ? Or it is their destiny under the very context of times? All these seem to be given a verdict by time itself.The series of antinomies running through Tang Haoming' s historical novel inditement have built up his particularity, by which people juxtapose him to Eryuehe, Ling Li, and called their works "Ming & Qing Narration" . This generalization, in my mind, effaced their distinctions on ultimate probation and tragedy appealing, although provided a base for comparing in subject and artistic means.This article is just based on the decipher to the series antinomies of Tang Haoming' s inditement, it tries to explain the distinctions between Tang and Eryuehe, Ling Li, as well as disinter therr resemblance and affiliation.