Urban-rural Conflict As A Narrative Pattern In The New Era

This paper is a study on urban-rural relationship in sociology and culture about the novels in the new era, and the key word is "urban-rural conflict". Of course, it does not refer to that there is only conflict between city and country to take "urban-rural conflict" as a narrative pattern. On the contrary, the same and fusion between them are necessary. But as a tool for understanding, it must be simple, direct and sharp so that we can get it more easily. It is no doubt that "urban-rural conflict" revealed the real situation of the mainstream three decades. It will help us more quickly and accurately to touch the inside of literature in the new era by the general paradigm of the urban-rural relationship. Meanwhile, the "urban-rural conflict" narrative is neither an expansion of geographical boundaries nor just a simple collision of two kinds of lifestyles and ways of thinking between city and country, but a fierce fight between traditional culture and modern civilization in China.There are six chapters in this paper. The first chapter describes the progress of the "urban-rural conflict" narrative how arising and developing, the trial in the new era and the reason of booming in the new century. The second chapter and the third chapter sort out two main types of the text and retrieve the most typical narrative pattern into deeply analysis and explore the cultural impact between city and country. The forth chapter chooses Jia Pin-wa, wang An-yi and Chen Ying-song three typical writers who have different living and cultural backgrounds and compare their statements and value judgments about city and country. The fifth chapter discusses the important cultural issues such as the identity of human anxiety, urban-rural value judgments of writers and the disappearance of urban and rural character. The last chapter focuses on the aesthetic gradual change in the context of modernity and sums up four major characteristics such as the writing from the romantic imagination to reality, the strengthening of tragic consciousness, the return of the story and the change in narrative perspective. As long as there is a gap between urban and rural areas, the urbanization process is ongoing, and the urban-rural integration is no final completed, regardless of the background and the recessive themes, the relationship between urban and rural areas is still the greatest existence in current literature. It is worth to study more deeply.