Wang Anyi's Country Writing

As one of the most active writers of modern Chinese literary circle, Wang Anyi, with her energetic continuous writing and abundant works, has been praised by the literature critics. Look back through the history of modern Chinese literature, it will be found that Wang has always been of the leading persons of the literary trends while somehow kept an arm's length. After her Poem of Eternal Regrets, she has been mostly regarded as a shanghai writer or a heritress of shanghai writing style.Actually, she has never stopped considering the country writing and its styles during her more than 30 years composing. In this paper, the author systemizes and analyses her text relevant with the country society, country spaces and country living through careful text reading with her certain texts in four periods, to study how Wang structure the "country" in her fictional worlds of different periods and to find out how she deals with the relations between city and country in text with examples from her fictions.There are four parts except the forewords and the summaries:In chapterâ… , the paper analyses Wang's country writing in the educated youth literature period, taking Middle-school-students of the Year 1969 and Cold Land as main examples. In this period, Wang sharply apperceived the "basement of wall" between city and country people. She described the neglected failure of a common people who wanted to get into the other space by narrating the experience of Wenwen, an educated girl from city, and Liu Yiping, a country girl.In chapterâ…¡, the paper analyses Wang's country writing during the root-seeking trend with the Daliuzhaung Village and Xiaobaozhuang Village as the main study objects and clears her root-seeking road.During this period, Wang tried to set up an unitary image of China in her writing, which means she had to construct the meaning space of "country" by the comparison between more than two spaces and discourse systems.Wang's writing style in her root seeking works exposes the heterogeneity of her "country".In chapterâ…¢, the paper gives a narration on the rebuilding her tower of spirit Wang experienced in 1990s.During this period, while Wang was unsatisfied and sad with the coming of modern industrial society, she repositioned the "country" in her writings as well, which was shown in the following two aspects:the country society as an actual victim and the country space as an aesthetic virtual ideality.Chapter IV, Wang finally found the possibility to communicate between city and country spaces through the immigrant literature writing one more time.By the contract among Sisters, Lyrics of Sisters, Undergraduates and Peasant Worker Liu Jianhua, the paper shows the dramatic changes in Wang's narrations about the characters and fates of peasants.Through the analysis of Fuping, Proud cobbler, water caltrop above lotus root beneath etc.,it shows Wang's expectation of finding country in city and of the ideal situation of "beauty and labor" in her text. She tries to rectify names for city by her country writing.