Arriving At The Peak By Surmounting And Exceeding Herself

Among various writers of Taiwan, the special experiences which Sift Shuqing had lived in "Taiwan——the United States---Hong Kong" has provided the convenient chance for her writing, it also typically refracts the changing track of Taiwanese contemporary literature, opening a window for us to observe,view and study the literature of Taiwan,Hong Kong and overseas Chinese. Shu Shuqing entered the literary realm with modernism style, after that she experienced the return of the native literature, description of female marriage and love which stood for the female position and imagination and recall about a hundred years colonized history of Hong Kong. As a result, the thesis tried to place her under the particular literature current and period background, combined the concrete text and the literary criticism theories, tried to understand her works in flexible way, divided and studied Shi Shuqing's works according to her specific creating stages.The total thesis is divided into four chapters, chapter 1, the source of the modernism, it explored the reasons of Shi Shuqing' earlier period modernism reations style and the topic of "sex,death,crazy" that the texts came out from three aspects: era background, growth environment, special personal art talents.Chapter 2, describing and expressing the female lives from the dual culture angle, the recovery and prosperity of the native literature urged Shi Shuqing to come out of her earlier "surprising and nightmarish" world, she began to stare at the place of her "root" that she had grown up, and wrote a series of works which expressed her native feeling. In addition, because of her study abroad in the United States, the dual cultural identity and the rises of the western second stage feminism movement, which provided vaster visual field for her creations. In later 70's, many of her works described the relations between men and women, marriage,love and family, she stood at the female position and angle, tried to inquiry the deep reason of female predicament and redemption by describing the emotional quarrel and crisis in real life between men and women, and launched vehement criticism to the male power doctrines.Chapter 3, the vicissitudes of Hong Kong, during her earlier stage, She Shuqing inherited her former feminism views, the differences are: she had jumped out former narrow and small world, observed and recorded the life more objectively, calmly and fairly, and reflected the social contents more broadly and deeply too. During her later stage in Hong Kong, Shi Shuqing created epic passional "Trilogy of Hong Kong" that expressed her loving for Hong Kong in which she had lived for 17 years there, the protagonist of "Trilogy of Hong Kong" is prostitute Huang Deyun whose legendary life connects many important history affairs since the Hong Kong was colonized by the United Kingdom, Shi Shuqing tried to expose the colony history and the society changes of Hong Kong's a hundred years vicissitude fate, "leave a record about Hong Kong customs for the posterity".The disturbance,noisiness and alienation in Taiwanese society evoked Shi Shuqing's mission about concerning for the society and life, in novel "Paint to Simulate Drinker", protagonist Lu Zhixiang has lost his sense of smell, the writer described a group of abnormal and insane men and women consumers among the social intercourse network around him, thus Shi Shuqing showed the alienation and loss of the people in consumerist society with the critic attitude, sang an endless elegy for the decadence of the end of century.