On New Populism Reflected In Chi Li's Novels

As a global trend of thought, populism, since introduced from Russia into China, has blended with kinds of thoughts, evolved from political theory into literary thoughts and penetrated the whole Chinese literature in the 20^th century. Nowadays the populism in China has become a new populism. Those country literature has overwhelmed urban, popular literature has overwhelmed elites' and masses has overwhelmed intellects are the important characters in the modern and contemporary Chinese literary thoughts, which focusingly have represented the demands of modern Chinese populism.Today China has become a new important industrialized country, bringing on the rapid urbanization and the flood of farmers and industrial labors into the towns to rewrite the map of the distribution of Chinese population, which makes the contemporary Chinese populism not only keep the tendency of anti-intellectualism and disdain to the intellects but have a series of new features, that is in contemporary China new populism has got out of traditional visual threshold and focused on the estate of citizens in the society. So gradually it mainly has paid attentions to the city, with the main characters of the urban literature overwhelming the country, the citizens overwhelming the elites and the popular literature overwhelming the exquisite. Under the effect of new populism, the theme of urban bottom citizen's life has become a new fashion in the end of 20^th century. The joys and sorrows of urban bottom citizen's life have been focused by lots of intellects, which can be proved by the new realistic novels represented by Chi Li's.In so many studies on the novels of Chi Li, it is rarely to discuss the tendency of populism in novels of Chi Li, which is an important issue related to contemporary Chinese literary production and social thoughts. Thus, the author tried to present the tendency of new populism in novels of Chi Li as the theme of this dissertation, review the new development of populism in contemporary China, and research into contemporary Chinese literary trends and ideological tendency in the novels of Chi Li, which the author thought is vitally academically valuable and strongly realistically pertinent to understand contemporary Chinese literature and drive it to develop healthily.