Civil Position On The City's Image

The theory of "civic commonality" presented by Chen Sihe broadens the roomage of study on city literature. The construction of city image on the commonality standpoint mostly occurs on the edge of literature history for almost a century with bitty status, keeping away from central discourse of city writing which comes down in one continuous line form revolution writing, factory writing, and reformation writing to ideology writing.In the late Qing Dynasty, Haishanghua liezhuan tied in the flourishing city of Shanghai and its civic side tightly, which was the rudiment of city writing on the commonality standpoint.City tale on the commonality standpoint in Zhang Ailing's novels formed relatively a steady aesthetic structure. Zhang Ailing and Su Qing who inherited the convention of narrative from Haishanghua liezhuan, "returned" to the writing of civic life, depicting the city profoundly by translating the background of Country-China into the commonality of garden city.In the new era of literature modern city novel revives the civic commonality as "reminiscence" writings about Beijing and Shanghai, new realistic writings and Wang Anyi's productions etc reveal the multi-features of city writing on the commonality standpointThis paper starts with typical civic commonality to discuss the city image and city spirit clinging to the commonality. The culture productions such as Zhang Ailing's Shiku gates, Tie Ning's bystreets, Chi Li's downtown streets and Wang Anyi's alleys, bearing the folk spirit of city struggling between modernity and tradition, structure the "processing" city on the commonality standpoint where townsfolk lives the ordinary life trivially.