A Study Of Beijing Writing In Wen Zhen’s Novels

Wen Zhen is a representative of the "post-80s" writers,she has been writing since 2003,mainly short and medium-sized novels which have gained much attention and popularity in recent years.On the basis of observation and experience,Wen Zhen specializes in writing about cities,deconstructing and dismantling realistic urban elements,accurately grasping the flowing atmosphere of the city,and finding the substantial core of the city.Through a comprehensive view of Wen Zhen’s Beijing writing,we can further explore her unique understanding of Beijing as a new-age female writer,gain insight into the image of Beijing from multiple levels and aspects,and realize the two-way interaction between the real Beijing and the literary Beijing.The introductory section introduces the source of the topic,the current status of domestic and international research,and the purpose and significance of the study,in order to prepare for the presentation,narrative style,and reflection on the value of Beijing in Wen Zhen’s novels.Chapter 1 is the presentation of Beijing writing in Wen Zhen’s novels.This chapter starts from three aspects of Beijing: the landscape of modernity and tradition intertwined,the social Beijing of ideal pursuit and reality lost,and the spiritual Beijing of righteousness and tolerance and order and rationality.It explains that the Beijing landscape has become a multifaceted body of intertwined material attributes and traditional poetry,demonstrating the spiritual essence of sensual tolerance and rational order,and explaining the material,emotional and identity crises faced by the foreigners entering Beijing.Chapter 2 is the narrative approach to Beijing in Wen Zhen’s Novels.The novels are structured from four perspectives: narrative structure,narrative perspective,narrative scene,and narrative language.The novels focus on the life patterns of foreign men and women in Beijing from a female perspective who are running to Beijing,escaping from Beijing,and returning to Beijing.Chapter 3 is the value implications of Beijing Writing in Wen Zhen’s Novels.The novels expand the experience of writing about the confrontation and coexistence of old and new spaces in the city,reveal a warm view of the plight of "urban drifters" and the aesthetic implications of urban writing in Beijing,and sort out the useful literary,social and aesthetic exploration of Wen Zhen’s Beijing writing,realizing the aesthetic and ideological depth inherent in urban writing.The concluding section affirms the significance of Beijing’s writing in Wen Zhen’s novel,while analyzing the shortcomings of its writing,such as the weakness of emotional thought and the tendency to homogenize the characters.This chapter looks at how Beijing writing as a practical activity can present a more contemporary,realistic and substantial sense,and how it can lead to the long-term development of urban literature.The study of Wen Zhen’s Beijing writing in the context of urban literature and narratology has practical and aesthetic implications,both in terms of placing her Beijing writing in the context of urban literature as a whole and exploring its progressiveness,and in terms of using the development and changes of the city in her novels to provoke profound realistic thinking and explore the future transformation path of China’s cities.