From "the Border Town" To "the Unusual Island"

Since "The Peach Garden" of Tao Yuanming appeared in Weijin period,this ideal society had becoming a ultimate spirit home to return to and the ideal realm of Chinese scholars' spirit.Whenever the country becomes feeble and weak,some Chinese scholars' "Taoyuan sense" will germinate."The Peach Garden" just becomes the pronoun of fine life in people's heart,they hope they can find the relief in this unreal harbor.Until today,"The Peach Garden" has already exceeded its that time accidental and temporary significance,But have entered the eternal and long artistic conception.It makes "The Peach Garden" become a culture prototype in Chinese literature creating.The modern period of China is in a most turbulent age.Be confronted with the grave nation crisis,All the scholars have made efforts to give advice and suggestions for the country. Suddenly,Saving the nation have become the subject of modern literature.Besides the voice of calling the national independence and prosperous and powerful country,there still have a submerged and be forgot and be criticized place in the corner of modern literature,that is the authors of pursing "The Peach Garden" ideal.The fictitious land of peace and happiness, different from the disaster of war world and the turmoil reality,and separated from the confusion reality.For example,The west hunan world of Shen Congwen,The peach garden and bamboo grove of Fei Ming,The island outside the world of Lin Yutang and so on.Though they stood in the border of the modern literature and vocalized different sound from the Main current literature,The dream of "The Peach Garden" and its value and significance should not be ignored.Shen Congwen and Lin Yutang are undoubtedly typical example in these authors. The "border town " and "unusual island" created by them also have apparently characteristics of the ideal of "The Peach Garden".In recent years,the research of "The Peach Garden" has also got some attention in the Research community,But they Put particular emphasis on Ancient Literature,the academic successes related modern literature are lacked.So I make the dream of "The Peach Garden" in the core of thesis,and put emphasis on the authors who have the ideal of "The Peach Garden". Shen Congwen's "border town " and Lin Yu Tang's "unusual island" is analysed additionally as representative version.I put the single author and single work into the entirety narration, Macroscopic view assurance and microcosmic analysis combine with each other.I hope I can make people know the characteristics and significance.Excepted the foreword and concluding remarks,There are four chapters in the thesis.The foreword part give an account of historical setting modern period,and human being longing for the ideal life realm for thousands of years,to lead to the importance of the dream of"The Peach Garden".The first chapter through the culture history and the produced background,to explain that the reason of the part of Chinese writers in modern literature pursuing "The Peach Garden" is the turbulent Social environment.The second and third chapters narrate from Chinese local territory and overseas range,on the basis of combing the modern authors who have the ideal of "The Peach Garden".And put emphasis on the two most representative significance version,Shen Congwen's "border town " and Lin Yu Tang's "unusual island".I hope through the analysis of single author and single work,we can peep at the complete picture of modern authors' dream of "The Peach Garden". The fourth chapter discuss the value and limitation of the ideal of "The Peach Garden", comply with ideal forbidden realization and human being's spirit longing these two aspects. Explaining that though the ideal is dimly discernible,Because of its unique value by itself,the step that human being tracks down will never stop.The concluding remarks part of the thesis points out that,the ideal has the very important effect to human being's survival and development.So the dream of "The Peach Garden" which is a beautiful world embodying the ideal track down and pure human being paroxysm spirit.It will be a eternal pursuing of human being exist in people's heart forever.