"At A Crossroad Where Literature And Politics Meet"

Ding Ling is special and meaningful in Chinese modern literature history. Ding Ling and her works are complicatedly literary phenomena deserved attention. The research on Ding Ling is an intractable critical proposition because too much truth is covered by history. We can't comprehend Ding Ling sound by measuring her and her works though "social revolution" or "nonpolitical" standards.In order to know Ding Ling more thoroughly, the paper takes each turn of Ding Ling as a breakthrough, analyzes her ambivalent mentality and character to apprehend her miserable soul and sufferings in the sensibilities, and revalues some of her important works especially those written when she stayed at Yan'an.The paper is divided into three chapters. The Main contents are as followings:Chapter 1:Freedom and revolution: The difficult choices in contradiction. Ding Ling experiences a bitter struggle to choose when she turns to "left" for the first time. Her final choice is decided by her hope and ideal. The author comprehends Ding Ling's changes deeply by analyzing the phenomenon that most modern intellectuals head for revolution and take in revolutionary ideas and monistic thought. By analyzing Ding Ling's revolutionary ideology which is alien to the important meanings that the existence of the emotion and individual life etc. in the text Wei Hu, the author realizes the difficult changing of Ding Ling's thought.Chapter 2: Literature and revolution: Bringing up a different Polyphony. Ding Ling is still in the state of contradiction and anxiety that brings a distinguished Polyphony to Ding Ling's novel. This achievement is inseparable with Ding Ling's conflicting as a person of self-realization and that she can follow the artistic regulation while harboring a political responsibility.Chapter 3: Analysis and consideration: Ding Ling's self-conflicting feelings and personalities. In her late years, Ding Ling's double characters are conflicting and she can't break the bondage and overcome herself. It's the result that caused by herself- lack of theories, feudal civilian feelings, extreme believes in revolution, and also her personalities declining to mediocrity.