Li Jieren's Novel And Depiction Of "City"

Li Jieren had a strong sense of historical recordation. On the one hand, his work rooted in the soil of Shu Culture, on the other hand, he tried hard to absorb the alimentation of foreign literature and art, which made his depiction of "city" like the combination of Chinese and Western writing characteristics. He had made an outstanding contribution to protect the diversity of cultural and to inherit the national civilization, which still has the particularly far-reaching significance in the context of globalization today.Li Jieren was an intellectual who had the pursuit-consciousness of regional culture. He took the suburbs of Chengdu city as inhabitancy of his soul, where he combined himself with basic civil society, and laid the ancient city into the modern transformation. In his works, Chengdu, in this historic transformation, became not only imbued with beautiful, feminine and enjoyable atmosphere, but also abounded with weakness and fickleness which emerged from its seemingly powerful surface. In his works, the image of Chengdu had strong regional characteristics. He made a combination of history and reality. In this process, Chengdu and the surrounding towns formed a region, which consists of countries and cities. And they actually formed a more essential local world. Chengdu spirit can be developed the useful and discarded the useless in the continuing impact.Li Jieren, with his strong civilian position, bestowed a unique folk flavor by writing with freedom, portraying the free personalities and independent thinking of the history and the reality. The folk flavor was mainly reflected in the daily lives of the people and the unique way of speaking and expression. He was full of humor and optimistic, hidden the author, and wrote directly. He pursued the massiness and greatness of history, and the delicacy and wisdom of poetry. He depicted the Chengdu city and its people at pains. Through the narrative of desire and narrative approach to violence, he integrated the human nature well with the history, completed the writing of images of Chengdu which influenced by the Shu Culture, and achieved his own pursuit of aesthetics.