Exploration On Cultural Causes Of The Chinese Officialdom Literature Since The 1990s

Most people are used to put their focuses on the phenomenon in the field of officialdom, such as promotion, demotion, fraud, probity, bribery and transgress. The phenomenon mentioned above are usually the objects to which many authors express their feeling. At the end of 20th century, the officialdom literature, as a part of the contemporary literature, shows uncommon livingness. Works in this field emerged frequently, and propagandizes on officialdom works attracted more and more people than ever. The hotspots of the officialdom literature were in quick succession one after another. For example, Zhangping's novel Fatal Decision, Wangyuewen's Traditional Chinese Painting and Yanzhen's novel Kaleidoscope (cang long zhi shut) are salable and popular. Even many bookstores set the special area for selling officialdom works. It can be concluded that the prosperousness of officialdom literature, which came forth from the 1990s, is not only a realistic phenomena of literature, but also a phenomena of culture. In this paper, The author tries to probe into the cultural causes about the formation of officialdom literature, which is obtained by the analysis of the primary characteristics in the contemporary works, and also the studies on condition and influence that come from the traditional culture and commercial culture.In the historical lingual context, it is impossible to deny the influence of traditional culture on literature composition of any time. The traditional culture has been molten into national culture mentality, which influences the whole members and all the art activities such as the literature. In the contemporary officialdom literature, the traditional culture not only affects the writers and the acceptors potentially, but also acts on the creation of the officialdom texts. In instance, the mode of dual contradiction thought, the official standard consciousness and the admiring feelings toward honest and upright officials often found in the works concerning the contemporary officialdom.With the development of commercial economy and the flourish of commercial culture, the best culture circumstance has being formed for the emergence and development of officialdom literature. The liberal ideas and the active thoughts became the vital factors of the emerging of...