On The Chinese Novel At The End Of 20'Th Century In The Context Of Globalization

At the end of 20'Th century, Chinese novels indicate a tendency in many aspects to clew the artistic features of the traditional ones, which has the inseparable relations which novelists' consciousness of the national culture and the pursuit of multiculturalism all through the world in the contest of globalization. This thesis mainly focuses on the following questions: the artistic farness of the traditional novels manifested in the novels by the end of 20Th century, the historical contend for the novels to inherit the artistic techniques of the ancient ones. The analysis of the above questions has great significance to the harmony of various worldwide and to the construction of China's cultural identity.This thesis includes the preface and four sections. The preface discusses the significance to study Chinese cultures and novels under the background of globalization and multiculturalism .It also introduces background of the thesis, theories and methods in the thesis and the important points.The first section is the analysis of phenomenon of novels at the end of 20's century, which has three points. Part one discusses whether it is the progress or retrogresses of the tradition of realism in the novels that the novels by the end of last century had such realistic features as "viewpoint-singling", "focus on the mass". Part two demonstrates that the narrative strategies in the novels at that time, for example, "the flourish of Neorealism", "the retreat of the avantguard consciousness" and "the renascence of classical realism", are closely relate to the novelists' consciousness of national culture and to the rising of multiculturalism. In part three, the thesis discusses the distinct features in the novels by the end of 20'th century, the variety of novelists ,the consciousness of novelists' own identity and the variety of novel's style, which have intimate relations with the reality at that period and with the great power of China's cultural tradition. The conclusion of the analysis is that the novels at the end of 20'Th century had the tendency to follow the artistry of Chinese traditional ones.Section two is the case study of the three novelists: Yu Hua, Han Shao-gong and Mo Yan, who have won the global literature reputation. The conclusion for study of Yu Hua's novels, To Live, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, etc, is that his novels manifest the civilian tendency in the aspects of the narrative strategy and standpoints. As to Mo Yan, the thesis studies the Chinese folk features of his novels. It argues his folk position as his words "writing as a common people", and analyzes the idiographic skills of Chinese folk narrating. The thesis chooses the text cases are Big Breasts &Wide Hips , Red Sorghum and Torture of Sandalwood and so on. As to Han Shao-gong, the thesis combs hiscourse of creation from "seeking origin" in literature to that in artistry and discusses the features of sketchbook in A Dictionary of Maqiao. Thereupon, the thesis continues to expound the global significance of Han Shao-gong's novels adopt the national artistic tradition in novels. The similarity of these three novelists is that the worldwide reputation is from their respect to and adoption of their own cultural tradition .The study of novels by Yu Hua, Mo Yan and Han Shao-gong presents the importance to insist on the consciousness of national culture and the great signification of presenting cultural tradition in the novels.Section three is the further analysis of the above questions from the historical angle and find of the course for the phenomena in the novel by the end of 20'Th century. In the 20'Th century, Chinese novels were influenced both by western and traditional novels ,but they had different tendency at different periods. According to the tendency, the history of novel in the 20'th century can be divided into four stages: from the late of Qing Dynasty to the Movement of May Fourth;from the Movement to 1940's;from 1940's to the middle of 1980's;from the middle of 1980's to the end of 20'th century. Especially in 1990's, many novelists displayed the distinct tendency of national tradition in the novels and got the reputation globally, which presented that the tendency had both the national and the global significance.Section four discuss the inspiration that the Chinese novels of the 20'th century end obtaining global prize give us. The global context what Chinese culture faces is that, on one hand, global multiculturalism pursuit is distinct increasingly;on other hand, the west culture imperialism is still present. These are contradictory. Chinese has a centuries-old history in culture exchanging with other nations. Each era has different principle of cultural exchanging, to fit the time occasion. The historical comparison is helpful for us to make certain which principle of cultural exchanging we should take in the time of globalization today. Based on the analysis and discusses above, the thesis argues the importance of the conscious of cultural independence and identity in the world, which is beneficial to establish the principles to handle with the relationship of culture between nation and word.