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Modern Writers's Writing About Chengdu

Posted on:2012-03-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y F HeFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330335956752Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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City life and urban city is continuing to write the dual construction, urban image of the city life writing, promoting or developing the Statute of the city. Republic of China thousands of years, many changes have taken place in Chengdu, the emergence of a large number of writers, the creation of these writers enriched and developed city life in Chengdu. Through imagining, they represented advantages and disadvantages in the history of urban development in Chengdu,creating varieties of text Chengdu.The main part of the paper is including three chapters. The first chapter discusses the Chengdu's "Dark City" image. Wu Yu and Ba Jin in the pen, the feudal family and Chengdu is reference to the formation of a relationship. Young is always in the whirlpool and the small house.In Chengdu, the feudal family red to rebelling and returning of Wu Yu. His rebellion are reslluted in the fight against repression in the upper class.Of feudal Ruran prompted the conversion of the feudal gentry, and this is the fate of many scholars in Republic of China. Feudal family, "a narrow cage," "death row" image and the dark background are builded Ba Jin's "Dark City". Valving chlorine shake relentless disrupted the quiet life in Chengdu, human order, values, ways of thinking, Li Jierencreated a chaotic city under the rule of warlords. Trampled under the warlords, Chengdu by a quiet and stable city into a theft rampant, panic pseudo-modern city.The second chapter, discusses Chengdu's " rural-based. Garden City" image, and building "leisure city" urban identity. Chengdu is a consumer city, values??and more by the impact of rural values; Chengdu much water, is a water city, with elegant facial features; "Land of Abundance," the wealthy people of leisure life in Chengdu to develop attitude towards life; Chengdu people love to keep Flowers, flowers and trees thrive in Chengdu as a large garden. In troubled times, this garden was given a more spiritual significance. It is the spirit of Ba Jin's back garden, but also many other intellectuals in the back garden. Its slow pace of life, a life of leisure attitude, quiet and natural environment, feminine feminine, provided a physical and mental habitat people in war.The third chapter discusses the construction of the New Deal and the impact of the war, people generally feeled an identity crisis. Identity constantly changed and producted. Over time, the static ultra-stable state in Chengdu broken, writers reconstructed the identity of Chengdu city. The west breeze gradually, local elites and officials beganed to transforming Chengdu with the standard of "Modern city". In Chengdu, some old spaces, representing life way are changed; some new space and new values are created. After the Revolution, warlords impacted the state of life in Chengdu. Promise of the New Deal better, life has become increasingly grueling.The war has brought a large 'number of refugees in Chengdu.It led to the anxiety of cultural identity. Faced with such a situation, Chengdu writing includes enthusiasm with constructing Chengdu identity. Some of the lower classes and elites have preferred relaxed Chengdu.Their Chengdu writing constructed as a "laid-back capital." Urban elites and local officials hope the building of the Chengdu into a modern metropolis. While some people lament the leisure of Chengdu, others sended out the spark of anger. In fact, the laid-back only is a spiritual paralysis and negative relief, and the empathy and escape.The war has inevitably affected every aspect of people's lives, who can not really immerse in this atmosphere. In the history, culture, rights, war continues to "play", not maintaining its original character, the Chengdu formed a leisurely pace was kind of coexistence with the modern state of conflict.
Keywords/Search Tags:modern writers, Chengdu writing, Identity Construction
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