On The Creative Writing Of Chizijian's Short Stories

Chi Zijian (1964-), is an contemporary outstanding female writer with distinctivepersonality. This writer, who began her literary career in her twenties, attracted the critics'attention by her fresh and pure style. From the early 1980s up until now, in theses 20 years,she keeps on creating literary works with profound geographical and local cultural features,her description of folk and nature, her concern for the bottom people, and her alienation fromthe common, contemporary literary trends, enable her to attract so many readers and criticswith her peace and sensibility. Chi Zijian's short novels exceed long stories in terms of the artachievements, which together with her purified existence, makes her novels invaluable andunchangeable.The paper aims at her short stories and tries to get a general and systematic analysis of it.It mainly focuses on the theme, image, character and art style and comments on the concept ofhumanity, happiness outlook, realistic outlook, outlook on death. It also talks about theessence of poetry and the style of prose with the use of image narrative and childrenperspective, unique geographical narrative, the passion and warmth of novels. And the paperconfirms Chi Zijian's stickiness to pure literature and beauty.Chinese contemporary literature needs to abandon the vulgar commercial interests, and tocreate real masterpiece, under the influence of commercial waves. Chi Zijian's stickiness toshort novels is not only the stickiness to pure wording, but also the stickiness to one's literaryconscience.