Chinese Literature Of Modern Liberalism In The Perspective Of Aesthetic Modernity

As a branch of Chinese new literature, to some extent, liberalism literature is the product of modern anxiety of Chinese modern intellectuals, whose basic characteristics is that it highlight aesthetic function of literature and participate in the reconstruction of value of modern China by a practical way of aesthetic discourse. After the Opium War of 1840, China was placed in a global conflict and "to be modern", on the one hand the Chinese intellectuals saw the advanced industrial civilization, a strong western developed, both expressed admiration and full of doubts and fears; on the other hand they achieved a convince of historical evolution "new" have to overcome the "old". As a "backward country", strong desire and aspiration for the modern nation-state, will often show a kind of impatience of thinking and emotion, radical and even irrational behavior, strongly anti-traditional of "smash the old world" and Western-style modernization model, often constitute the main contents of China's pursuit of modernization. If since the late Qing Dynasty and "5·4", enlightenment and revolutionary discourse representatives of the mainstream and the radical pursuit of modernity, that determined, violent and radical modernity encounter the backwash and challenges from liberalism literature. Liberalism literature is facing modern problem, they are try to imagination and construction of modernity in the logic of their own cultural tradition. They demonstrated the double function of reflection, which is reflective of modern civilization, the same time, also holds a negative reflection of traditional and backward. It was this situation that determines that value direction of discourse of liberalism literature did not closely follow the Western model of modernity, they held the concept of modernity, which is rooted in the tradition and the creative transformation of the traditional factors of civilization and the aesthetic factor, meanwhile, also pursuit Chinese modernity on the reflection standpoint of the Contemporary Civilization, or also known as a modernity of modern reflection. Due to Such reflection and critical attitude of liberal writers, they did not step into fanatical passion worship of Western-style, or any other "ism" worship, but surveyed the modern path of Chinese by careful, sober, rational perspective, and tried out the prescriptions of their aesthetic redemption to all the flaws in the process of modernization. The one of modernity performance of liberalism literature, is to Consciously make their own cultural and aesthetic choices, as they suffered shock of ideological and emotional, the anomie of value at the "break" type of transition from traditional to contemporary, who inherited "5·4" enlightenment theme and explored the modernity consistent with the development of Chinese considering cultural renaissance as a starting point for enlightenment, and showed a conscious pursuit of aesthetic modernity. Today, we reexamine the liberal writers and their works, it is not difficult to find that some entangled conflicts such as tradition and modernity, the Enlightenment and the aesthetic, ideal and the reality, instrumental rationality and value rationality and other composite proposition constitute an abundance of Vision and splendid art scene of liberalism literature.Based on the above aspects of thinking, the four chapters of the main part of this paper respectively explain the pursuit of aesthetic modernity and performance characteristic of China's modern liberalism literature.Chapter 1:This chapter investigates the context of liberalism literature formation, believe that the demands of modernization is the driving force of its generation. Modern liberalism, which considered liberalism as a way of modern enlightenment, has been introduced to National salvation from the West by liberal intellectuals since modern and contemporary era, the nature of rational that considered liberalism as tool to save the nation liberalism, and then influenced the complexity of liberalism literature on the connotation aesthetic modernity:On one hand, liberalism literature showing aesthetic tendency of utilitarianism literary and artistic life, on the other hand there are the emotional appeal for the aesthetic, "Useless", for the Enlightenment culture, have consciously pursue and practice. In addition to the aesthetic discourse of writers has some kind of internal division and tension, under the specific historical background of the revolution and war in modern China, the conflict and macrophage generated from individual aesthetic discourse of liberalism literature and external ecological environment of literary, showing that two-way collision of aesthetic and enlightenment, aesthetics and revolution, ideals and reality, freedom and restrictions etc. One after another of the arts debate between liberalism literature and outside, showed that their efforts and hard to break out outside.Chapter 2:The part analyzed the internal mental state and value orientation of liberal writers. Out of anxiety and even apprehension of the historical process of modernization, and writers produce a deep sadness experience of life. The sorrow and sadness were embedded within works, which became a latent main line of works of liberalism literature. Liberalism literature, in practice, mainly conveyed the uncertain factors of the individual in the great change of era, and the apprehensive of incapacity of grasping their own destiny, their essence that authors express is how to survive while the individual face the problems of the impact of modernization, and strive to find a solution. One of their paths is that they consider humanity as basic point and the ultimate point of some divine colors as the Aesthetic "Redemption" content and show the ultimate concern of life. Liberal writers try to put his faith of determine in art practice, given art the function of quasi-religious of the redemption features, and build the art world of poetic and aesthetic.Chapter 3:The author unfolds and analyzes the narrative form of liberal literary, and points out that liberalism literature efforts to achieve a breakthrough on the mainstream ideology by the aesthetic discourse and focus on sad songs and historical destiny of ordinary people, view and look back the change of individual life forms, human relations and human nature in the irreversible process of the modern history. Based on reflection and critical position of modern civilization, writers rethink the situation of the reality of rural society in China's modernization process, examined calmly the negative factor brought by modern civilization, attempt to resist the erosion of modern urban civilization by the traditional poetry and reform the negative of modernization. Of course, this transformation has strong inherent limitations in the face of modernization and Utopian idealismChapter 4:In this part the author carries on the previous discussion on characterization of art form what is the esthetic modernity liberalism literature pursuit. The writing of aesthetic modernity of liberalism literature, besides rediscovering the historical modernity and considering the reversion of traditional native soil as a internal driving force, the author explore also that aesthetic effects of beauty of traditional artistic conception conveyed by diversified viewpoint of narrative, aesthetic trends of spatial sense as well as poetry language, in order to can make effectively a docking between aesthetic world and artistic life.Liberalism literature in the perspective of aesthetic Modernity, as an indispensable aesthetic power, closely participates in modern build of modern China, and promotes the history development of modern Chinese together with other forms of literature, occupies certain position in history. Liberalism literature, as a literature which has been actively existed, has still fresh vitality in today, it is the important enlightenment significance that liberal literature deeply perspective and analysis literature, life, human nature and explore and pursue human good feelings, life's meaning and value of individual life.