On Qian Zhong-shu Phenomenon

Qian Zhong-shu is a significant famous person of Chinese cultural circles; "Qian Zhong-shu Phenomenon" is an important culture appearance of Chinese culture history in the 20th centuiy. The thesis argues that: Qian Zhong-shu's literature creations typified by story Besieged city attained a certain high degree of philosophy by revealing the intellectuals' profound humanity and mankind's existent predicament. In addition, the excellent skills of humour and satire enriched the word space of Chinese modern literature. So his literature works ought to become the classics of Chinese literature in the 20th century. His academic study and research typified by Guan Zhaibian attempts to eliminate the boundary of literary theory between Chinese and Western, ancient and modern times to make the genuinely macroscopic comparing research, and thereby has the specified methodology value. But the academic value and Qian Zhong-shu's academic status on literary history is heightened by the academia. In other words, Qian Zhong-shu's academic status is probably not as high as that appraised by people, and this kind of contrast between actual value and recipients'evaiualion constitutes "Qian Zhong-shu Phenomenon".Centering on the phenomenon, the thesis reviews "Qian Zhong-shu Phenomenon Reception History" in the 1980s and 1990s. By studying on the word space of Qian Zhong-sha which is constructed by Qian Zhong-shu's works and critical articles, reader response and the connected events, especially "Qian Zhong-shu Myth" weaved by the academia in the New Period, it applies reception aesthetics, reader response criticism, literature sociology, social psychology to comprehensively analyse the language circumstances of "Qian Zhong-shu", reveals social .cultural, psychological reason behind "Qian Zhong-shu Phenomenon", and furthermore analyses the inspiration and thinking the Phenomenon brings to us.