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Research Into The Transformation Of The Literary Images Of The Chinese "MigrantWorkers" During The 30 Years Since The Reform And Opening Up

Posted on:2011-09-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R T YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360302997163Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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During the latest 30 years, a close examination of the rheology of these two camps' "peasant-workers" images enables us to easily find out that the South "peasant-orkers" image in their self-writing gradually moved closer to the image of the elite writers', and that they began to capture the theme of their works from the soul level while the writers'works about "peasant-orkers" are becoming more vivid and plump. After entering into the city and securing a foothold, writers began to return home in their spirits and took care of the real life and aspirations of the bottom "peasant-orkers". In short, the literary images of "peasant-workers" are moving toward integration. After the reform and opening-up, China's rural reform started, and the implementation of the household contract responsibility system liberated the peasants from their land. In the Third Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, we decided to shift the focus of the party's work to economic construction. China opened up special economic zones and set off a economic construction boom, which provided employment opportunities to earn a living for these farmers liberated from the land. Under the command of these two forces, Chinese farmers have began to seek jobs in cities since 1978, which leads to the appearance of a "tide of peasant-workers" in the past thirty years. Since then, China's reform and development have flickered with the "peasant-workers" figures and wisdom in all aspects, and they have become one of the important driving forces of China's socialist modernization and urbanization. "Peasant-workers" have become a national focus and one of the targets of social topics. Life's change is always the concern of literature. Then,"peasant-workers"started to write about their own lives and experiences. The elite writers began to depict peasants'city life with imagination as well as their joys and sorrows.The present paper, based on textual analysis and through classification, induction and summary, taking sociology and cultural science as tools, divides "the peasant laborer" literary figure's changing of the past 30 years into two main'camps', namely, self-written of "peasant laborers" and imaginative description of the outstanding writers, in which, the camp of self-written peasant laborers, with the aid of such sociological and economic references as China's reform and opening up policy and the market economy construction process, is divided into "surround the city", a stage of two kinds of images, "enter the city", and hence got the result of such a changing. Self-recording--community narration--soul analysis. The camp of imaginative description of outstanding writers, according to the development of the Chinese "three agriculture" literature of the past 30 years, is divided into the 80s, the 90s and the new century, three stages, in which, the image of the 80s peasant laborers is developed from the description of the "city entering of the peasant laborers". To sum up, there are three images, namely, Chen Huanshen, the city enterer, Gao Jialin, the leaver, and Suan Shao'an, the wanderer. The 90s Chinese literature, deeply connected with the development of time, and under the influence of the marketability, the urbanization, the fashion, presented the entertainment tendency, which caused the serious absence of the" city entering peasant" or " peasant laborer". In the new century, the step of Chinese urbanization is speeding up, the urban construction and the country infrastructure land quantity is expanding year by year. In 2004, the country revised "the People's Republic of China Land Control law", and "taking over for use" to the land was changed into "the collection" officially, the land ownership was critically changed. China is rapidly changing, but behind this fast development, is the large quantities of collections of land, the large-scale infrastructural facilities, for which, more and more farmers of land losing appear. The land is farmers'only capital. Losing the land, they lose the life and lose the only survival dependence. However, the impact of commodity economy, day by day, is by now formidable to the countryside. The consumption notion is deeply rooted in the hearts of people, and the farmer needs to raise their own living standard. Facing the threatening life and new seduction, the farmers start to leave the homeland for citites thoroughly to seek for the wealth, the path of becoming rich. Therefore, the writers put into this group of farmers enormous attention, which leads to the appearance of a large quantities of literary work of descriptions of "the peasant laborers. According to the statistics, from 2001, the fifth issue, to 2003, the tenth issue, taking the well-known literature periodical "Harvest", "in October", "Present age", "Zhongshan" as the investigation objects, works about farmers leaving their land and entering city are up to 275. In these works, the images of the "'peasant laborers" may divide into:"the hopers of urban status", "the suffers of dignity lost", "romancers of the bitterness", " the wipers of traditional virtues", "the revengers of pathos" and"the spirit drifters of returning to one's native village", etc.After three decades of development, literary writing and recording about the "peasant-workers" have become a literary landscape which can not be ignored. Theoretical research'propositions are from practice, while the results of theoretical research can also guide practice. To this end, through the rheological image of "peasant-workers" from the latest 30 years, this paper starts to comb, summarize and discuss this new proposition in Chinese literature, in order to find out trajectory of chinese literature's developoment and change during this process of change.
Keywords/Search Tags:"MigrantWorkers"
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