Multiple Visions Of Reform

The industrial novel is a vivid record of China's reform,includes the nation state,modernization,reform and other concepts.They are the symbols of Chinese social and cultural changes since the new era.Considering the industrial novels since the new era is helpful to examine the uniqueness and complexity of China's reform,to explore the multiple aspects of reform politics,and to provide a new perspective for thinking about the interaction between literature and politics.First of all,taking the nation state as the main body,taking the science and technology as the method,taking the realization of modernization as the goal is the core connotation of reform in the industrial novels.It puts the country in the time series of modernization and inspires people's patriotism through the fact that China is a developing country.Taking Confucian culture and family culture as examples,it explores the possibility and cost of integrating traditional culture into modernization.The industrial history fictions tries to restore the close relationship between the state and the workers.By narrating the industrial history,it can alleviate the status anxiety of the current workers.Industrial novels record China's reform process and contain different dimensions of the national imagination.As a means to realize modernization,science and technology continue to be presented in the form of "hong" and "zhuan" in industrial novels.The intellectuals become the center of the narrative,and workers are in a subordinate position in production.However,the intellectuals' overseas stay and the workers' sharing of the country's worries imply the opposition between "hong" and "zhuan".On the one hand,scientific management is regarded as a necessary method to improve production efficiency,which has indisputable rationality.On the other hand,workers think that scientific management is a way to oppress themselves.After losing their voice in technology,workers can only become the managed labor.The industrial history fictions tries to unify "hong" with "zhuan".Through education,the children of workers not only ensure the continuation of workers' culture,but also master the science and technology.The children of the workers realized the imagination of being "hong and zhuan"."South" is endowed with the symbolic function of modernization by the novels of migrant workers.It is also the epitome of China's modernization.These novels presents the aspirations and costs of migrant workers in the process of pursuing modern civilization.The south is the equivalent of modern civilization,which implies the dual structure of city and township,modern and pre-modern,or the practical space of working to get rich,or a closed city,to keep out the workers,or the dormitory,bearing all the happiness and sorrow of the workers.In a word,the south in the novels of migrant workers has a variety of value attributes,which is the ideographic space of China's reform and opening up.Secondly,The social contradictions in the reform make people question the reform.Industrial novels echo the reform process,reflect on the relationship between efficiency and fairness,integrate the social identity that appears to split,and modify the social cognition of reform.This is highlighted in the image of cadres and workers suffering.The cadres in industrial novels contains the meaning of Chinese reform.The practice of reform in different stages endows cadres with special political intention and identity imagination: they represented the nation's will to reform;the necessity of establishing modern enterprise system is proved by the failure;become the moral mirror of the cost of reform;explore the possibility of solving the contradiction between socialist values and capital logic.In a word,the various types of cadre images fully illustrate the diachronic nature and complexity of China's reform.The writing of suffering in industrial novels is not only to show suffering,but also to interpret it."The choice" moralizes suffering,affirms workers' commitment to suffering,rewards workers' loyalty to the country by punishing corruption,and restores the relationship between workers and the country,thus dispelling the tragic significance of real suffering."Workshop director" believes that the suffering stems from the workers' lack of reform consciousness,and the overcoming of the suffering depends on the transformation of the workers themselves,simplifying the complexity of the causes of the suffering.” Wen cang mang” explains that suffering is the inevitable result of the capitalist mode of production,hopes to find a solution to the practical contradictions from humanitarianism and Marxism.But the author fall into the contradiction between reality and ideal.‘Wu bei” sees suffering as a necessary price for workers to integrate into modern civilization,through personal failure to reflect the capital logic.Finally,with the adjustment and upgrading of industrial structure,the writing of industrial history,the memory of workers' culture and the imagination of workers' future have become the center of industrial novel creation.In post-industrial society,the reproduction of worker culture is divided into two different paths.On the one hand,it writes the nostalgia of the worker culture,thinking about the impact of the reform on the culture,comforts the spiritual pain of the workers' group,and reconstructs the contemporary value of the workers' culture.On the other hand,some novels dispel the sublimity of workers' culture,highlight the failure of workers and break through the traditional narrative mode of industrial novels.Both approaches are biased,highlighting the difficulty of remembering worker culture in post-industrial societies.