Survival Condition And The Spiritual State Of The Contemporary Intellectuals

The social transformation began in the Chinese society since the1990s, not only changed people's material life, but also changed people'sunderstanding the outer world and the inner world. At the same time, allsorts of changes are brought by the era, which not only leads to theprosperity of the Chinese literature, also causes the spirit of thecontemporary Chinese literature to flow to the tendency of themultiplications and personalities. Since from this, novels themed onintellectuals in 1990s also have appeared the tendency towards themulti-level creation about disposition molding and the status imaginationof the Chinese intellectual. Taking novels themed on intellectuals in theperiod of the social change as the object, the article makes an attempt toexplore survival circumstances and the spirit situation of the intellectualin the different situation, which analyzes the principal reasons of thesespirit situation of intellectuals in the life of history and the real world,especially reasons about the human nature, aiming to outline the spiritualcourse of the Chinese intellectual.The article is composed of five parts:The Introduction summarizes mainly the spiritual course and thestates of mind of the Chinese intellectual in 20th century, and appraisescomprehensively the research situation of the intellectual image and theacademic achievements in the present time, and points out novels themedon intellectuals are regarded as the object from psychological and culturalangle researching the mental bewilderments of intellectuals, and analyzesthe possibility, necessity and importance of the spirit situation of them.Finally, it outlines the understanding of the intellectual's concept in thearticle.The fast chapter mainly concerns novels of the intellectual's historylife, discussing there is the complicated link between the intellectual's spirit puzzlement in the contemporary Chinese society and the historicalculture environment, the human nature, the traditional culture. Also thereis a comparison with the states of their minds when confronted with thesimilar survival circumstances between the intellectual in China andEastern Europe, which inspects the cultural and political reason of theweak culture disposition of the Chinese intellectual.The second chapter emphatically touches the spirit symptom of theChinese intellectual in the market economy time. The question isdiscussed in three aspects: the survival resistance and spirit perseveranceof the idealist, the spirit losing and value vanishing of the nihilist,degeneration and indulgence of people who pursues the desire. It revealsmainly difficulties about survival circumstance and spirit situation of theintellectual in contemporary society in the spirit symptom of the Chineseintellectual in novels. And we describe their members is disintegrated andthe transforming course of their minds.According to some novels, the third chapter talks about the wholespirit situation of the contemporary intellectual in the period of the socialchange that they seek the home in drifting. It includes three aspects: thespirit roaming of intellectuals in foreign countries, the mind pacing backand forth of them in value bewilderments, the mind drifting of thembetween in cities and villages.The last chapter summarizes the full article and points out the mainachievements of the intellectual novels creation since the 1990s, as wellas outlines that there exists this kind of the situation of their spirit in thelong-term time. It also forecasts their spiritual trend in the future in thepresent age.