Rider Of The Era

Zhang Kangkang, a big name among mainstream writers during the new period literature development course, also a thinking-style female writer who can be rare in feminine writing from the new period. In 1990s even when female literature is prosperous, Zhang Kangkang kept aware of the subjective consciousness and being vigilant to the Feminism all the time. She insisted on an open literature perspective and over-gender writing, at the same time she always reflects female life through advanced humanity visual angle and tried to break the repression of the time to keep an eye on the dignity, the existing value and the future of woman and human being in a malposition of real ethics and ideal values. She tried her best to guide human beings to real liberty.Through Zhang Kangkang's fictions, you can find though her works advance with the times, woman is the main concern all the same. In a sense, her works have restored the mental course of 1980s women seeking for personality independence and individual freedom and have reflected the progress of woman subjective consciousness turning clearer and stronger, thus showed human's eternal appealing for free and ideal living state.From Northern Lights, Invisible partner to The Gallery of Passion and Women on the Edge, Zhang Kangkang explores the way of female image molding with the changes in the outside world all the time. The evolution of female image will be studied through detailed analysis and discussion of this four typical works.By shaping the image of 1980s individual expanded freshman searching for genuine love and reasonable marriage, recognizing the new way of life and relentlessly torturing and analyzing of self-soul, the image of 1990s sex and love combined lovely woman searching for female subjective consciousness and the true, the good and the beautiful life ideal by deconstructing traditional sex culture, marriage and constructing mature love mode and the image of women on the edge full of modern sense insisting creative career conception, casual and actionless life outlook and free and independent love-sex view, Zhang Kangkang added to the new period literature the female group image of seeking true life, pursuing ideal living state and full of independent and self consciousness which is of great significance in diversity orientation of feminine writing.It cannot be denied that Zhang Kangkang's writing is inevitably of Utopia color since the characters in her works are of strong enlightenment awareness and idealism, at the same time, her works cannot go into the deep soul of the characters and lack overall concern of them due to her creation strategy of catering to market which also hinder the development to the depth. However, Zhang Kangkang's advanced self- cultural identity awareness, open writing attitude, varied and flexible writing style and continued concerns on human freedom undoubtedly played a guiding role in contemporary literature of women and had some enlightening significance to making feminine writing move toward a broader spiritual vision and a new high of creation.