A Comprehensive Research On Jin Yi

Jin Yi's early romantic novels featuring with extreme emotions are based on personal love affair. As a very subjectively sentimental writer, Jin Yi's early life experience was filled with shadows of gloom, hurt, and hate, which has left a deep imprint in his whole works. From early love stories he has been driven by a strongly resentful complex, many of his works thus are significantly intertwined with the color of anxiety and anger.With the spread of strong egoism in his early works, Jin Yi has prolonged a extreme way of thinking, leading to simplification in judgements and recognition dealing with problems.The deep sense of evil human nature makes Jin Yi take revenge of the whole world very earnestly. The distortion of this mind always result in means of destruction rather than construction, along with an anarchism color.However, Jin Yi's works before 1935 reflect a wide range of talent, for example, some delicate love stories appeared together with the extremely sentimental ones. Some novels show great sympathy towards"minor ones", as well as exiles from other countries. Jin Yi also wrote novels concerning about the livelihood of Northeast with a wild and bold style. All of these works fully reflect Jin Yi's humanitarian feelings.Jin Yi actively and consciously tried to integrate into the literary trend of popularization in the 1930's, and repeatedly wrote"From the Individual to the People"theme of time. His works also extented the "May Fourth" tradition of"For the Ordinary People's Life", that is, calling for justice and light, criticizing ugliness and darkness. At the same time, a lot of coarse works as"theme first"emerged in haste.The framework of simply punishing evil and praising virtue with pure love and hate, result in serious shortcomings of modeling. His pursuit of populism often appears in a huge swing due to criticism on dark human nature based on simple moral evaluation. And it's often difficult for Jin Yi to get rid of serious emotional malpractice. The works of Anti-Japanese War such as Eve with strong propaganda color,damage the artistic effect severely.Jin Yi's writing is like a journey from an emotional vortex into a dried-up era of tide, from extremity to extremity. The dull and repeated theme reflects that the writer can not go beyound himself under spiritual shackles. It inevitably results in serious lack of subjectivity needed by creative life.This lesson is not unique for Jin Yi among Chinese modern writers who were lost in chasing time rorrent and could't surpass themselves.Jin Yi's novels and proses have highly similar feature. This phenomenon is related with Jin Yi's resentful mentality on reality and his choice for prose writing rather than poetry. There are some colorful masterpieces of Jin Yi's proses among large amount of extremely violent ones. His proses also have more lasting vitality compared with novels.Jin Yi is chief-editor of some famous large literature periodicals, such as Literature Quarterly, Mercury, Wenji Monthly, Wen Cong, Harvest,etc., most of them are highly related with Left-Wing literature periodicals which are organic composition of main stream in Chinese modern literature. JinYi has been a literary professor in Fudan University for a long time. Through his work as editor and teacher, Jin Yi cultivated and found a lot of literary newcomers. The strong political eagerness of participation and emphasis on combative literary function, inevitably have great effect on Jin Yi's editorial ideas.In short, Jin Yi has been always in pursuit of progress, light and justice during his literary life. Jin Yi's limits are both of himself as well as a specific era.Jin Yi has made a solid contribution to Chinese new literary history through his literary activities.He derserves enough attention. His literary career, as a meaningful case, also can provide a vivid example of exploring the hard and contradictory spiritual journey of modern intellectuals.But the current research on Jin Yi is not only insufficient but also seriously debatable. Some classical literary history works, as well as famous scholars, have made deficient even absurd conclusions about Jin Yi, especially his literature creation. This phenomenon reflects that the research on writers out of the first class is still very incompetent.The defect on Jin Yi's editorial thoughts research lies in: Firstly subject to some errors of traditional research on literary editing.Without the combination of literary ideas and works it's must have been so empty.for the in-depth research on Jin Yi. It's particularly obvious because he has been misread for a long time. Secondly, because Jin Yi's editorial activities are so complexed, especially Literature Quarterly, the first one Jin Yi engaed in as an editor-in–chief, was participated by so many people. So it's very important to discern Jin Yi's authority of selecting articles. Only by this way could his unique editorial ideas not have been obscured. Thirdly, it's not easy to get abundant historical materials because it's so far away from the time of Jin Yi's editorial career. The deficiency in research on Jin Yi is the common problem of research on literary editing. Most of the reasearches are very similar and lacking in-depth exploration. To this end, it's a very efficient way to restore Jin Yi's editorial ideas combining with his writing career and literary opinions.Deficiencies are more obvious in research on Jin Yi's literary works. Firstly, it is because of Jin Yi's relatively poor creation. Secondly, there exists the wrong way of judging a writer's ability according to his personality. In many people's memories, Jin Yi is a generous one, so kind and amiable to others. The writing style of trivialization is closely related with this orientation. But this inclination ignores the extremely emotional side of Jin Yi. Jin Yi died in 1959, the research on him has a lot of factors that raise respect for the dead and is inevitably more flattering with reminiscent ingredients. The most typical example is Jin Yi's Holy-type, which is often misread as the representative of humanitarian novels. This misunderstanding not only hides the author's extremely harsh attitude towards females, but also ignores the huge impact of the love stories upon the after-works of Jin Yi. Thirdly, it also reveals some deficiencies of traditional research: First of all, cut Jin Yi's creation into definitely distinct periods based either on content of the works or declarations of the writer, ignoring the overall creative intention of Jin Yi. Next, due to lack of deep analysis on the precedent conclusions there exists phenomenon of routinization.Finally, because of the complexity of Jin Yi's literary activities, some researchers arbitrarily assigned him to some schools or organizations based on literary zones or groups.This method results in not only misreding Jin Yi's works, but also sheltering their uniqueness. Fourthly, There are lots of collected works of Jin Yi after liberation, however, they are mainly restricted to the side of "calling light". This part of works is far from enough in deep understaning of Jin Yi's full production. Some very unique works such as Torrent, Night, have been submerged for a long time, and have not aroused enough attention.Therefore, the revaluation and further study on Jin Yi's literary activities is not only very necessary, but also very potential. At the same time, this effort can provide reference in deepening research on modern writers and exploring new academic field.This paper is aim at revaluating the overall literary activities of Jin Yi in the context of Chinese modern literary history. It especially focuses on anylyzing and ractifying the problems of previous researches, and strives for breakthrough serving as a modest spur for the upcomging study.