Cultural Conflicts During Social Change And Transformation

Historical Fiction is an important part of the new period's novels written. With the social emancipation of the mind as well as the East-West cultural exchange developping and deepening, historical novel writers begin reflecting on history and traditional culture of China from the perspective of modern society. Fiction writers start to base on a much wider field, the peasant uprising and the peasant war is no longer the only concern with the literature hot spots, while the emperors and feudal officials have become romantic and narrative object. In this paper, by analyzing the two novels which hope to narrate the end of the Ming and Qing in the troubled times of late , we try to make acts of literary narrative object to reflect further on the troubled times of cultural conflict in contemporary historical novel and its impact on the performance of modern society Inspiration. The full text is divided into five parts:Preface: Development of Historical novels in the new era: This part mainly to analyze the development of the historical novel in the new period, including a brief summary of the creative process in the historical novel of the five stages of evolution, that is how the writers extricate themselves from the very beginning of history of the class struggle and accept the modern view of history. In addition a wide variety of aesthetic in the new era novels has shown and creative tendencies in some of the deficiencies are also required to conduct in-depth thinking.The first chapter mainly points out: Liu Sifen and Tang Hao-ming are standing on the point of modern history concept to reflect and explore the two special historical period , and in their works show a clear awareness of the contemporary. But the two writers to reflect on the perspective of history with each similarities and differences: Liu Sifen focused on the description of several scholars of Fu She, " Bai Men Liu " tries to show the cultural conflicts and changes inspired by social turmoil ,through of scholars'life experiences and ideas, who have the larger social impact of the works well described. While Tang Hao-ming try to describe the life experience of Zeng Guofan to show the declining of middle and late Qing period reflected on the history. The similarities between the two writers are that both of them placed deep thinking on the rise and fall times , and all of the characters are engaged in in-depth analysis of the inner world. Chapter II focuses on the works shown the pursuit of the creative aesthetic and summarizes that:In " Bai Men Liu " and "Zeng Guofan" important figures and major events are basically valid in the history, but the two writers give full play and capacity of arts fiction to the non-main characters and events, basically the truth of history and the arts are consociated. Through the comparison of historical figures and fiction shaping, the analysis focused on the balance and trade-offs between the arts and history in two works. Chapter III analyzes the similarities and differences of the two works between major character shapes, while the authors shape the analysis of the artistic image of the creative starting point lies. According to figures of two works with different descriptions , in " Bai Men Liu " we'll analyze the three main character art image parallel alternately one by one;...