The Conflict Of Passion And Despair

Shanghai city has been a exotic existence in China since the modern ti mes.Following the traditional cultures and absorbing Western civilization,the cityintegrated both into Shanghai's unique "charm".It is a cultural comple x as well as a paradox because of the combined cultrues from different back grounds.The magical city presents us various pictures such as glassware sway in theblur,debauchery lives;Zhang Ailing' endless desolation and lonliness in dreams at midnight;Wang Anyi's pyrotechnic world in Shanghai lanes an d expecially Wei Hui,Mian Mian's hysterical and sextural screams,hopeless ness rebellion.Shanghai has already been a systematic significance entity rather than a passive object described by different writers at different periods of time.The city itself is not only a background,but also a complicated individuality embodying writer's aesthetic judgment.Shanghai 30's and 90's have respectively witnessed prompt devlopment in China's modernization and shared similarity in the field of economy,culture as follows.Firstly,both are transitional period of society and formational time of consumption cultures.Secondly,both are pure cultural diversion and counterplea against main stream of cultures after the cultural enlightenment.Therefore,the new send novel and Wei Hui,Mianmian's novel have shared incomparable similarity.In the discription of the city,Shanghai prestents the common culture in the nature beyond the time and space.The thesis is composed of four parts,based on the writtings of Shanghai.Chapter One Shanghai impression:In literature,the city is not regarded as a simple existence,but a kind of mental metaphor.There are logical relations between the city and the desire.Shanghai is a decadent modern metropolis in which the double crisis brought by capitalism civilization and semicolony culture exist,filled with temptation,trap,chaos,and breakdown.In the pens of new send writer and Wei Hui,Mianmian,within dusky bar of lamp light,or in the free rein,or along with the dejected music,or before shiningly evasive neon,or on Saturday in this peculiar time section,the modern metropolis has been performing the complicated and flourished curtains of "Shanghai dreams"Chapter Two,the spiritual exploration of Shanghai writings:Influnced by various western civilizaion and exotic culture,the new send writers have deeply formed estrangement from Chinese traditional culture such as 90's Wei Hui and Mianmian.they breaked off form traditional culture for lack of heavy sense of historical responsibility.Therefore,after a comprehensive survey of new send writer' and Wei Hui's writings,it is found that the spirt of them originated from own life experience,other's identity together with baseless and suspensed state of life.In this way,worriness,depression,frenzy spirit can find full expression in all of their writings with no exception. Chapter Three,the mirror image of female:Shanghai is one city full of soft overcast breath,in which the females are pulses of this city communicating the tempo of city life.They are the skin of the city distributing soft desire breath.The complementary existence the female image and city that the never same sex of new send writer and Wei Hui,Mianmian visual threshold molds are composed,upper pondering and polling having played the loud city and the literature duet,having also enlightened to deeper female doctrine arrangement of ideas.Chapter Four,narrate to preserve degree:Ideological form feeling send writer and Wei Hui,Mianmian Cottonopolis to dredge on sells own initiative having been away from main current newly,whose border unfavourable situation has led to their culture in narrating visual angle,write position,language style aspect having abandoned the tracking down and depth thinking model being worth to significance, be to take oneself as marriage partner but,regard oneself as value home to return to. They have lost the value foundation stone,the solution has constructed a entire significance world,have used Modernism and queen Modernism technique of expression to express the fragment-rization mood experience that.The ten li of metropolis infested with foreign adventurers,rosy clouds fly in the 30's,the road,drifts down allover cotonier;The night club,jazz,the corner of the eye putting on gay clothing and powder self's face lose a dew's indifferently. Lonelyninety age,Nanjing roads,advertisement playbills,bars,Disco hall, rock'n roll,noteworthy conduct and independent character posting all around are concealed at the back,the tableau,different history precipitate different background out,issue same spacious and enduring echo.