Leaving Grief With Humor

Wang Xiaobo is one of the few authors in contemporary China full of penetrating reason thoughts. Many of his works depict the Culture Revolution. In his point view, it is a comprehensive explosion of chronic illness in the traditional Chinese culture, which can be considered as a huge negtive coordination in modern ideological culture progressing. Only by open out and animadvert the profound cause and ridiculous logic of the Culture Revolution, can China get rid of shadow, rebuild logos, recover conscience, and make way to a real modernization.For centuries, on clarification to social catastrophe, historiography and literature often adopted the common pattern of 'treacherous official troubling', 'loyalist suffering', 'insistent integrity' and 'pledge devotion to rescuing people', to narrate. As a result, readers understand the social catastrophe as a opposition of elite character and treacherous intrigue in all respects. But the sufferrings and feelings of ordinary people were almost forgot by historiographical writers. Culture Revolution works inherit the same narration pattern.Wang Xiaobo chose a completely different angle of view from most of the'Culture Revolution' works. In his writtings, pipsqueak became the principal part that sufferred. Those characters played a negligible role in social activities. But so negligible and marginal as it is, not did they escaped from the soul oppress applied to the masses from Culture Revolution. This kind of inconspicuous soul oppress is not violent and outright, like what it is in excruciation, killing, denouncing violence and diputing violence, but it can permeate through skin and marrow, trap everyone into a deceived and conspired situation.For the soul injury to the pipsqueak, Wang Xiaobo gave a vivid description, 'life is a process that is slowly hammered'. 'Hammered' comes from original meaning is neuter. In Wang Xiaobo's works, most of the heroes have a transnormal sexual ability. But no matter how vernal and energetic they were, they all result in a deep sag and a hammered-like status. The soul hammering to the pipsqueak in the Culture Revolution is just like befalling a blunt knife that kill him invisibly, no blood, no sound, but is fatal. There is no opposition of so called justice and evil in Wang Xiaobo's works, no atrocity of cruelly killing loyalist, and no right-and-wrong of political routes. His works get rid of the common narration pattern used in Culture Revolution works, look into the history from the substrate, deliver plenty meaningful info from the epoch, to refract the soul injury nation wide, to present the width and depth of social catastrophe. The change of view angle of Wang Xiaobo directed people's cognition of Culture Revolution into a deeper layer.It is necessary to point out, that in Wang Xiaobo's mind, such social movements like Culture Revolution is not initiated by personal power of one or several leaders, but is a concentrate embodiment of chronic illness in the traditional Chinese culture, it's a comprehensive symptom of inner inordinate secretion. It has a profound psychology basis of the masses.In the past novel and movie about cultural revolution, common people was always regarded as objects to be belinded and persecuted, while this opinion obviously neglects the important role that common people take part in the political movement. Wang's penetrating lies in that he can recognize quite a few people are actually participants of cultural revolution. Wang talked about "winning lottery" in "taking my father as an example, as a literary history professor, he always winning little lottery in his last half life: almost to be defined a righty, or his academic viewpoint is animadvert on. Strange behaviour always followed his winning lottery: crying his eyes out and saying that his thought has not been reformed; brazenly submitting application to join the Party", "......hoping the Party absorb him on the spur of the moment....or fantasizing that his thought ischanged perfect...