The Communication Of Literature And Academic

The study of female scholarly writers in the early 20th century takes Chen Hengzhe, Yuan Changying, Su Xuelin and Lin Hui'in as subjects, probes into the world of their spirit and creation, and attempts to reveal their uniqueness as both writers and scholars, so as to provide a bridge between literature and academic research, a constructive sample for the development and improvement of them, and a model of modern female intellectuals'lives to solve the conflict between family and career.Scholarly writers are different from mere writers. With the usual double identities of scholars and writers, they have their own independent research and whole theoretic system aside from the literary creation. There were several striking female scholarly writers in the early 20th century:Chen Hengzhe, Yuan Changying, Su Xuelin and Lin Hui'in, who made outstanding achievements in both literary and academic field. More importantly, the extraordinary power of creation of Chinese modern women can be found in them, who are different from male writers and scholars with their bemusement and pursuit unique to females; and different from mere female writers with their scholarly nature and constructive duty, showing broader, more stable and open cultural views and worldly ideals. Combining the identities of females, writers and scholars, female scholarly writers have their own uniqueness worth investigating.With this in mind, the thesis probes into female scholarly writers in respect of females, scholars and creation. In the first chapter, the background of studying female scholarly writers is expounded, that is, the tradition of combining literature and academic research and the interactive pursuit of both of them. Then there is a further investigation of the new modern identity "female scholars". The study of female scholarly writers takes the interactive point of view of both literature and academic research. Scholarly writers such as Chen Hengzhe, Yuan Changying, Su Xuelin and Lin Hui'in had all received higher modern education and professional academic training. However, they retained the long-standing tradition of the combined study, and displayed the beauty of this combination in their writing. The establishment of schools for women provided females with the rights to receive social education, and enabled them to learn about Western modern civilization or even study overseas. This marked the entry of Chinese females into academic research and the appearance of "female scholars" in Chinese history. Chen Hengzhe, Yuan Changying, Su Xuelin and Lin Hui'in not only based their lives and pursuits on academic research, but took literary creation as the means of self-expression and self-realization. Literary creation is a demonstration of women's creative power, while theoretical creation is a further rejection of women's lack of creative power. With their creation in both literary and academic research, these female scholars broke into the allegedly exclusively male field, and set their firm footprints on the road to self discovery, expression and realization.The second chapter expounds on the hardships and struggles of female scholarly writers during the course of growth. Like most contemporary women, they strived for various human rights at vast expense. On the other hand, as female intellectuals, their struggles focused on the resistance against cultural control and the insistence on truth. Meanwhile, the oppression they suffered brought them more spiritual pains. In the next place, female scholarly writers were faced with the unique female conflict between family and career. In traditional Chinese ethics, females were supposed to fulfill the role of a good wife and loving mother before shouldering social responsibility. Therefore, their pursuit of academic career was in inevitable conflict with the family roles. The female scholarly writers took a balanced and coordinated attitude, constructing a new female image of independent wife and learned mother, so as to build a harmonious family.The third chapter centers around female scholastic writers'cultural fulfillment of their missions. With the scholastic sense of responsibility and mission, they strived to bridge the gap between the reality and ideal, laying the foundation for the development of culture and academy. First, they overcame the disappointment and sadness about the reality, and devoted themselves actively in the constructive work, meantime sticking to the principle of balance and reasonableness. Not only did they put emphasis on personal perfection and moral improvement, but based the observation and service of society on them. With their experience of overseas study and combined knowledge about both China and the West, they became the defender and spokeswomen of Chinese culture, as well as the learner and advocate of Western culture, making contribution to the cultural communication through their efforts.Chapter four focuses on the characteristic of their works. Firstly, their writing was rather spontaneous, aroused by certain events in life. Secondly, there was the reflection of academic thinking in their literary writing:the process of describing, analyzing the problem and finding the solution. Finally, the interaction and interpenetration can be found in their works.The fifth chapter discusses the meaning and value of the study of female scholastic writers. For modern female intellectuals, they are respectable models to learn from, with their harmonious family life, the full development of their personality and talents, and successful fulfillment of their social value. The study of them also illustrates an ideal state of the combination and interaction of literature and academy, the mutual complement of whose advantages will provide developmental space for both literary writing and academic research.