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"The True Story Of Ah Q" And "the Remote Town": A Cultural Implication Of Chinese Visual

Posted on:2008-11-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y J LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245966651Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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As two pioneering masters in Chinese contemporary literature history, ranked precursors in the Chinese literature world successively during the 2nd decade and the 3rd in the 20th century, they influenced generations and generations of young writers with their rich works, outstanding artistic achievements and the exploration of the native-country literature area. Lu Xun stressed much on "recrimination". The image of Ah Q he created is the one who bears almost all kinds of morbid personality and morbid psychology under the long-time oppression of traditional Chinese culture. Ah Q is a combination of almost all Chinese people's bad character and morals and bad spiritual beliefs including forgettery, slavishness, humbleness, fogyism, megalomania, hypocrite, moral senselessness, no-specialty, self-amusement, ugliness abuse, hierarchy, exclusion heresy, hating revolution and so on. Hence, Lu Xun made the life of Ah Q the life of every Chinese individual, Ah Q's personality soul of every Chinese image, and the name of "the True Story of Ah Q" a surname of all Chinese during the 20th century. In his works he discovered and protruded the traditional virtue of the remote frontier country people as well as their simple and honest human nature. In the masterpiece of "the Remote Town ", Tsui-tsui is a character who displays the beauty of nature, the beauty of humanity, and the beauty of human relationship. Moreover, the old ferryman Shun-shun, is fashioned into a role representing traditional morality including treating with sincerity, valuing personal loyalty more than behoof, warm-heartedness. They together founded a social environment, in which human and nature co-exist harmoniously, through which the author created his ideal of the re-coinage of our national spirits, so again, made "the Remote Town ", in succession to "the True Story of Ah Q", another image of Chinese people. There raises a vivid comparison between "the True Story of Ah Q" which exposes the dark side of humanity to arouse attention to cure and "the Remote Town" however, displays beauty to stimulate people's aspiration and pursuance for humanistic beauty. These two great masters' wishes to parse characteristics of our country people and to rebuild national sutra by different routes are emerged. Consequently, it is a significant and desirable topic to probe into the culture implication hidden in "the True Story of Ah Q" and "the Remote Town ", from the three viewpoints of text, writer's living idea, and individual recognition under circumstances of cultural ecology.
Keywords/Search Tags:Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, "the True Story of Ah Q", "the Remote Town", comparison
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