Whirlpool Of Memory: Study On Li Longyun

Li Longyun is one of the best writers in the contemporary China literary. He is a prolific writer. His literary creations involved in poetry, novel, movie and documentary, while the most successful one is drama. Li Longyun wrote a play named "Such a small courtyard" in 1978. Its publishing caused a tremendous controversy. From then on, the name "Li Longyun" entered into people's vision. By now, he has created many influential plays.Although, Li Longyun has gotten many outstanding achievements, the academia paid a little attention to him. "Research of Li Longyun" has a great significance, and it has a great lack too, so writing a Master's thesis about Li Longyun is necessary.This paper focuses on six plays written by Li Longyun. They are studied as a whole and combined with Li Longyun's own life. My paper named "Whirlpool of memory", there are four parts on childhood, youth, love experiences and characters. Finally, it conclude that the main line of Li Longyun's plays is "Memory".The whole structure and contents are as following:Introduction: Make a description of Li Longyun's main drama works, the research status, the existing problems, the scope and the train of the paper.Chapterâ… : Comparing the life of Li Longyun's childhood with his plays.Chapterâ…¡: To find the relations between plays and Li Longyun's youth.Chapterâ…¢: Analyzing the women in Li Longyun's plays.Chapterâ…£: Studying the figures that repeated many times in Li Longyun's plays.Conclusion: To summarize the main points of the whole text.