A Comparative Study Of Zhang Ailing 's Novels

Eileen Chang and Su tong are two important writers in China Contemporary Literature, their fiction always have the power of humbling. The reason is why to be this, they have showed the real soul of human nature in front of the reader.They dissected and let us to ponder,they just do dissected and no judge. They dig the humanity which was hiddende from everyday life corners and this is why their novels have a great similarity.Their different perception of life caused by the creative differences. This article intends to explore Chang’s and Su Tong’s novels similarities and differences from narratology, feminist criticism, psychology, etc.Comparing with Su tong and Eileen Chang, one is out of personal preference, and partly because of that Su tong as a male writers in the new period,be able to circumvent the patriarchal discourse centers and standing "neutral" point of view to imagining the pain of the women in the patriarchal society repressed and reducing the appearance of women as a "person". Eileen Chang’s unique portrayal of women not only overturns the "May4th Movement" female myth, but a highly critical of patriarchy culture. Therefore, this article attempts through the comparison of two writers, in order to detect their inner link so that openning up a new perspective for the research of Eileen Chang and Su tong.The article selects Eileen Chang and Su tong’s novels as the research object,divided into introduction,body and conclusion. Introduction section explains the purpose and significance of this paper,describes the research status of Eileen Chang and Su Tong. The body part is divided into four chapters.The first chapter is an overview of their creation,Respectively from the narrative of everyday life and the image of women to discussing their similarities and differences.Pointed out that they are in different times dissolved the grand narrative invariably,found that "people" in trivial everyday life. But the narrative is different from Chili,Wang Anyi’s daily life narrative.On the image of women portrayed,Eileen Chang is different from the "May4th" period to depict the beauty of women,Su tong is also different from other male writers of female kind of pure fantasy.Therefore,their uniqueness to emerge.The chapter is equivalent to the whole chapter consul-general.The second chapter perusing from the family theme novels to interpret the evil human nature.Mainly from the marital relationship,the relationship between father and son,mother-daughter relationship of three aspects to comparing their novels.Found that in Eileen Chang’s work the marital relationship’s foundation is no longer true love,but money. Su Tong described the men in marriage seemed helpless.Parents and children are no longer in harmony, the children were endure in silence, or is hard to resist.Through the interpretation of family relationships, digging deeper meaning behind the works. The third chapter based on the close reading of family drama works,mainly from the aspects of narrative compare the similarities and differences between the two writers. Research from two aspects of image and language.Discussion on images from color images and animal imagery. Different colors have the different emotions,however, the same color in Eileen Chang ’s and Su tong’s works and give out a different style.On language,Eileen Chang ’s metaphor were breathtaking,Su tong put the reader into his artistic conception and make the reader cannot extricate oneself.The fourth chapter traced the reasons of similarity in difference.Their different upbringing caused by different perception of life and affect the tone of the writer’s aesthetic. Traditional culture,"Dream of Red Mansions","The Golden Lotus" and other modern Western consciousness which is the main reason for the similarity. The conclusion, based on the text of the summary, emphasizing the significance of their creative.