| As one of the most important writers, Wang Anyi has already established her status by multiple techniques, deep suffering consciousness, civilians'consciousness, and the most personalized writing in contemporary literature. If we track Wang Anyi's changes the past three decades, we will find the growth of her mind world from her literary creation course. From the directly expressing of personal experience to brilliant success of her Shanghai literature. There contain changes of literary thought, more richness in her books and much more poetical words. Different things she tried to show like motional experience, rational attitude, and female consciousness had gradually integrated to a whole one pack. Her trying and courage to break through the self make her books always close to the times, and meanwhile keep clam examine of present society. This paper takes Wang Anyi's literary creation as a growth process of her mind world, a course to make multiple exploration at the beginning of her creation, to establish her narrative space by cognitive status, and to comprehensively present secular life of Shanghai in her own female poison. We try to discuss from the following five aspects:Firstly, the exploring and human searching at the beginning of creation. From the late 1970's, various literary trends waked up from long-term suppression by political factors, and vigorously grow up, out of control. Trauma literature, reflection literature, roots literature, female literature, realism literature, etc. appeared. Writers were eager to vent their pent-thinking who had long been dominated by political discourse. They had been constantly looking for the background of writing, making multi trying and exploring to make sure the most suitable way of her own writing style. Wang Anyi also experienced a process of trying and exploring. This process, from the literary point of view, is just the beginning. At this stage, Wang Anyi's creation experienced attempts from clear and simple readme-style"Wenwen"series, to literary narrative seeking, to bold expression of sexual desire. Wang Anyi's sight of inner world continuously opened, writing resources continuously strengthening, and her language gradually self-contained. It is an accumulation of literature literacy. Secondly, the establishment of the literature city, the inherition and innovation of Shanghai literature. Sad-Pacific and Documentary and Fiction, both were important spiritual turning point in Wang Anyi's literature creation. They both sustenance spiritual root seeking in the process of family root seeking. By family and spiritual root seeking in Documentary and Fiction, Wang Anyi established herself as both "Shanghai immigrant" and "Shanghai aboriginal", Wang Anyi succeed tradition of Haipai literature, to combine Zhang Ailing's legend and Su Qing's life, and meanwhile watch the shallow and noisy of present Shanghai literature, to show her own Shanghai. She found a wild and rich background for her creative idea that was Shanghai. There were a unique space and time background in Wang Anyi's Shanghai novels that was alleys that was away from the turmoil of social situation from 1950's to 1970's. This was dark period of the Great Shanghai where legends had been born continuously, this was political period that social discourse was above the top of private discourse, and this was a period with poor material and spiritual life. But under the poor and monotonous outside life, there were rich lifestyle which has been inherited from generation to generation. Wang Anyi made Shanghai (from 1950's to 1970's) a Utopia, where political dust was removed, and nature of life had been showed. This chapter will show the Shanghai Utopia from the following aspects:self-identity cognitive, space and time background, private living space.Thirdly, the significance of women in city and the female consciousness of writer. Represented by Shanghai series, female consciousness is an important feature of Wang Anyi's creation. But at this time, female consciousness was already not as strong as sanlian period, but showed calm and gentle narrative mode. Women Wang Anyi created were all Ordinary people, without equipment and mask, busying for life. These ordinary women were plain, simple, true and vivid. They were tough and subtle which are born from daily life. They maintained a relaxed attitude of life in turbulent age of revolution. They took their own place in the tough age of revolution, and even protected weak men. Women who lived in Shanghai alleys were the best convey of Shanghai citizen Culture, and they were also Character vector of Wang Anyi's literary thoughts. Generally speaking, there were the following characters in Shanghai novels of Wang Anyi:Wang Qiyaos and Yu Xiaoqius who were soft outwardly but tough inwardly, Fupings and Meitous who were always strongly struggling to survive, Nurses who had been accustomed to see everything, and Yangbaobaos who had shown their intelligence and wisdom ever since they were still children.Finally, the poetic secular life and deep humanistic concern. What's life? It is dense trivia that includes food, clothing, living and some other basic needs. In Wang Anyi's eyes, ordinary life is a significant aesthetic space, which constituted by ordinary life details. Wang Anyi had her own poetic experience and rational knowledge to life. She tried to express her calm and rational knowledge to material life and spiritual world by narrations of tough, fine and normal daily life. She was accustomed to use rhetoric and dense language, to weaken the story, to show details of life, and to show beauty of dally life by the way of accumulating fragmentary life details. Unique aesthetic significance, secular humanism, and calm understanding constituted Wang Anyi's literary basic.
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