Inside And Outside The Lens

The approximate 100 years'development of the theme of the 20th century Chinese peasants is not only a complex literature evolution process, but also a process involved mainstream ideology, the political power, the literature ideological trend, the social morality with the writer benefits. This caused the works of the 20th century Chinese peasants to get inevitably to engrave the mark of the age. The deformation, the distortion and the break occurred in the works under the time mainstream culture of the age, which were reflected in the writers'conception of the peasants literary image. Therefore, they made 20th century Chinese literary peasants image manifest the characteristics of the peasants in the different periods and the contrast and the contradiction of the peasants image, and displayed the distance and separation between the peasants image in literature and the peasants living in real life. In the 1990s, the century's mainstream of peasants working has disappeared suddenly, that making the symptoms more fully exposed. Looking back to the works on the 20th century Chinese peasants which describe"distance and separation"and inspecting distance between the writer and the peasants, the literature and the reality, the reality and the history, we discover the insignificant real status of the farmer himself at the mercy of others and the losing of the respect and maintenance of"the peasants'right".