From Hunting To Abandoning

ZhangJie is one of the important writer in 80's of 20th century. She began to write when she was in middle age, but her every work has caused heated argument.ZhangJie's writing progress maybe divided into three stages. Love Can Not Be Forgotten, Green of Grandmother, and Ark are ZhangJie's early work on love. In these novels she strives for love, sexual relation and women themselves. In those work ZhangJie's attitude to the female is doubtless advanced , and she specially emphasizes female's independence and self-renewal. In these work, characters make a large of efforts to pursue their ideal love and set up the harmonious relationship of the both sexes. But ,in fact, the effort are all uselessness in the end. Maybe it's the result from the cruel reality, maybe it's the end of the character themselves shortcoming. In conclusion, these character can not find a way to the ideal love and happy family. So ZhangJie called herself as a miserable idealist.From the late 80s to the early 90s, the society was in the process of rebuilding. In this period, the work of ZhangJie said goodbye to the Utopian idealism at her early ages and took on a posture of dishallowing nobility, deconstructing ideal, getting away from love. What Matter With Him is the beginning of this stage. It's publish caused a large of argument in the literary circle, some other writer and reader even can not confidence it is ZhangJie's work, In this time, ZhangJie liked as a wild animal which locked in a cage. She became angry and crazy. Maybe the writer's life experience made her lose the life's confidence, and also let her find out the life's cruel deeply. As for these work, we can consider it's the writer's disperse about the life, love and the both sexes. Although ,ZhangJie's work in this stage are not as important as her other works. But studying this works we can understand not only the changes of the literature but also the writer's psychology changes. In this stage, The Red Mushroom, The Life and The Annoyance and so on, all are important works.Life's changing and the writer become older gradually, ZhangJie's attitude to life changed too. No Word by ZhangJjie is the most important of contemporary Chinese novels in recent years. This time can be looked as the third stage. The work has received totally different comments compare with her early work. In this work ZhangJie traces the track of the woman's soul variety of three generation.From these works, we can see Zhangjie's emotional experiences starting from great eagerness for ideal love to sad disappointment with such love. In her works where feminine personalities are greatly valued, however, we will discover that Zhangjie has not walked out of the shadow of androcracy as she has male worship complex deep in her mind. This thesis intends to explore Zhangjie's emotional experiences from hunting for males to abandoning males in terms of textual structure, language features and the portrayal of characters.