On Bing Xin's Novels

揃ing-Xin?is one of the pioneers who firmly established the status of women authors when it comes to the thinking of chinese modem literature. It was the 揚roblem Novel?published around the time of the May Fourth Movement with which she made her debut. Since then she engaged in the profession of letters for the following sixty years. The main subject of the 揚roblem Novel?were the society, life and feminine issues. As she accepted the christian philosophy in the process of her personal growth and social experience, she came to develop her own philosophy of love in order to attempt to solve various social problems. However, she gradually started to realize that her philosophy of love was too idealistic and she needed toescape from it. Thus, she tried to deal with the social problems more directly and realistically than ever before.UMore importantly, the main characteristic of her works generally considers not aplot itself but prosaism as important. Interestingly, the peculiarity has been called as the 搒tyle of Bing-Xin? because her words are very lucid, beautiful, and elegant. In addition, another distinctireness of her works is that they represent the sixty year history of chinese modem literature.