Analysis About Zhang Ping' Novels

In modern China, more and more people pay much attention on construction of honest government and strict execution of law. Zhang Ping and his novels have been known as a literature and social phenomenon. It is a meaningful topic to research Zhang Ping and his novels.This essay will be divided into three chapters. The first chapter will start at the angle of "novels about problems", and will analyze the relationship of inheritance between Zhang Ping and Zhao Shuli. At the angle of regional culture, the first section will analyze the influence to Zhang Ping and Zhao Shuli caused by the regional and humane spirit of Shan Xi. This essay points out that the regional and humane spirit of Shan Xi is changed into the "social unconsciousness" of local writers, who choose to be the "spokesmen" of the masses. The second section will discuss the consciousness of "being a spokesman" shared by Zhang Ping and Zhao Shuli on the ground of the conclusion of the first section. The two writers mentioned above pay attention on different aspect. Zhao Shuli is inclined to create a national literature form that is liked by the masses, while Zhang Ping is inclined to assume social responsibility and criticize social problems. Their stature also comes from this consciousness. The third section will analyze how Zhang Ping inherit the creative tradition and "popular stand" of "Shan Yao Dan Pai", whose representative is Zhao Shuli, at the angle of "clean-handed official complex" and "reunion result" contained in the novles. The second chapter will discuss the consciousness of "situation" in Zhang Ping's works especially. This chapter will be divided into two sections because there are depictions of both government officials and the masses. This essay will try to indicate that Zhang Ping constructs the "situation" consciously to manifest the living situation of Chinese people in the alter time of the society. This "situation" comes from the reality and becomes the platform for carrying out the plots and showing the characters after being abstracted. Moreover, Zhang Ping gives many choices for the characters who are in the "situation". During these choices, Zhang Ping completes the portrayal of the characters. And because of the "clean-handed official complex", the choices that the characters make are in a certain direction. It is the...