The Urban Experience And Lu Xun's Essays Production

Beijing and Shanghai were the main space of Lu Xun's essays production.Modern metropolis had given Lu Xun the unique urban experience for essays writing.The thought Lu Xun's essays research,the practice Lu Xun's essays demand,and the literary production and style of Lu Xun's essays,were Inseparable from his experience in the city of Beijing and Shanghai.In the research of Lu Xun's essays,as a kind of "space" perspective,"Beijing writing" should be attached importance to it.Beijing's "old and new mixed" was the characterization of the standard form of the Chinese modern transformation.For Lu Xun,Beijing's "Old and new mixed" continuously produced "the anxiety of modernity",which convergenced the traumatic experience in his growth stage.In the process,Lu Xun's personal,nationality,time,space experience met and got along well together,essays became the most concentrated manifestation of this kind of experience.Therefore Beijing in Lu Xun's essays was considered a "social product",it was a city that was full of metaphorical meaning and the symbol.With the dream of the Enlightenment Lu Xun camed to Beijing,the theme of the modern Enlightenment itself presupposes the enlightenment of the urban to rural.However,six years before the New Culture Movement,Beijing gave Lu Xun the experience of failure,he had the dimensional feeling of "iron house".In the face of the"iron house" situation,on the one hand,Lu Xun agreed with the modern urban daily life,on the other hand,he through read the text with miscellaneous styles to seek for transcending.In the formation of the tension in both,Lu Xun's literary consciousness formed its own,and he selected the essays as the mode of the literature production in the end.Lu Xun's essays production in Beijing cannot leave in the initial formation of the modern "literary field" in the city.In the 1920 s in Beijing,magazines,schools and society three influenced each other,formed a modern literature production mode and the public domain which were center to the magazines.Lu Xun's essays embodied the characteristics of the literary production mode at that time;Lu Xun actively entered the public space through writing to feel the huge cultural potential of the urban space,whose performance would be its own unique experience in the city and must contain a kind of entanglement between "the personal space" and "the public space".Essays also"struggled out" in this complex entanglement.On the other hand,Lu Xun's essays production was inseparable from the social and political environment of Beijing.The relationship between Beijing's space politics and the modern new intellectuals had gaven Lu Xun the unique urban experience,which had influenced Lu Xun's essays on two aspects.One is more determined on Lu Xun's essays discourse,he insisted on a critical discourse of New Youth to reverse the discourse of the conspiracy of the power and the modern molecular;the other was gaining the new theme that criticed the modern intellectuals in the 1920s.In the meantime,it had formed the spirit of tenacity of lu xun's essays.In 1926,due to cashiered,engaged in a lawsuit and supported the students and other things,but also because the continuous "courting disaster" from essays,Lu Xun"escaped" Beijing."Escape" was an important urban experience for Lu Xun.With it,Lu Xun's essays writing in Beijing has come to an end—"Grave",which means the death is thought an important spritial passwords to unlock the generating of Lu Xun's thought and essays."Grave" to Lu Xun did not just mean the end,there was also a"historical intermediate" and a "geographical intermediate" experience.Shanghai was such a new "geography intermediate." From Beijing to Shanghai,in the conversion of the"intermediate geography",important changes had been taken place in Lu Xun's life."Ten foreign market" and Shanghai alley became the new coordinates of his life and writing.For Lu Xun Shanghai is a revolution of identity,in where he inevitably close contacted with the highly materialistic daily life,the Shanghai style writers,the publishers,and the ordinary citizens.Lu Xun had a clear understanding of the urban space of Shanghai.Shanghai and Beijing had a different public space.In the face of the brutal political repression from Shanghai,Lu Xun's tenacity and wisdom made essays always produced in the urban space.Lu Xun discovered the multi-spatial structure of colonial Shanghai which continued to strengthen his political feelings;Shanghai was both a modern city,but also a city full of revolutionary potential,Shanghai's revolutionary situation and Lu Xun's revolutionary experience encountered in the colonial space,"the revolutionary literature debate" thus had happened which influenced the evolvement of Lu Xun's essays and thought.There was a natural link between Lu Xun's essays and the "against nature" from the revolution;"For the record" approach and awareness in Lu Xun's essays had been more and more intense,Lu Xun developed the relationships between the essays and the media in the modern city to the extreme in the end,to write "put this on record"—a new text,which was a kind of difficult "anti-art" manner of "the production of the space".In Beijing and Shanghai,Lu Xun's urban experience was closely linked with the poetic of his essays.Lu Xun's essays are the typical "shock" art."Shocking" experience is the core of Lu Xun's artistic creation.Through "crossing-border" the daily life,showing the dark consciousness and the "crisis",emphasising on feeling and visual image,Lu Xun expressed the "shock" experience,Lu Xun's essays thus became a literary form which could lead to "shock" effect.Lu Xun's essays was also the rhetoric of the space of his walking in the city,which formed the intertextuality rhythm between lu xun's essays and the city,and the rhythm that beyonded the rhythm of the city,the twists and turns language,and the expression of the aesthetic principles different from the traditional literary.