A Vivid Youth Narrative - On Qin Wenjun 's Works

Qin Wenjun is a fruitful writer of children’s literature, she creates series of images of teenagers living in new era of China, these images become the model type in the gallery of Chinese children literature. Qin Wenjun’s compositions are prevalent among readers, and have received many honors both nationally and internationally, which include the “five one” project about the spiritual civilization patronized by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee, the “outstanding novels during the 50 years since 1949”, the second、third and the fourth term of the national children literature medals of Chinese Writers Association, the Song Qingling children literature award for the best novel, Bing Xin children book award, China Book Prize, The Chinese children literature medal, Yang huan children literature medal in Taiwan and jiuge literature medal in Taiwan and many other medals which amount to more than 50 honors. Many of her compositions are translated to foreign languages and published abroad. She received many honors abroad, include special medals of Italian mond luo international literature, the Hans Christian Andersen award nomination patronized by IBBY. Thus, the prevalence of Qin Wenjun’s composition has already become of study topic with great value.The existing study achievements of Qin Wenjun’s compositions are not in large amounts, they either not realize the importance of Qin Wenjun’s composition or too simple and superficial, thus there are weak points and blind spots among them, all of these situations leave the study space and the academic improvements for my topic choice. This dissertation’s author adopt the methods of meticulous reading of the text and comparing Qin’s compositions with other writers’ works to study Qin’s composition as whole, and try to analyze her compositions in about four respects: central narratives、images、the art of structures、the language characters.In the first section of the essay’s body, I summarize the composition’s topics: friendships and communications between two sexes, getting along with parents, the interesting things among teachers and students, and at last I point out the author adopt the perspective of the teenagers. The author writes down many stories of the teens and children with virtuosity, such like the conflicts among peers, the teenagers’ quarrels with parents, the little misunderstandings between teachers and students. All these stories have bright endings, the teenagers’ holding on friendships and hopes for love, their understanding for parents’ love and adoration of their teachers’ unique teaching tact all attune their relationships like breeze in spring, and make the whole composition presented optimistic atmosphere. The teenager’s perspective is the must choice of the author because she is holding on the teenager’s centralization. In her composition, Qing Wenjun adopt weaved perspectives. For one aspect, observing the world from teenager’s perspective, for another aspect, she adopt the adult’s perspective to sublime the purport, the two perspectives are entwined with each other. Because of the choice of the teenager’s perspective, the content of her composition get closer to the teenagers, and arouse the teens’ empathy. In the second section, I choose two typical image—the chic girl Lin Xiaomei and the lovely kind boy Lu Zhisheng, analyze their multi-faced personalities. In the third section, I analyze the structure mode of Qin Wenjun’s composition: multi-tunes and the treacle maytree on stick. The author gets an excellent expression effect through the entwining of the teenager’s perspective and the adults’ perspective. For one aspect, the adoption of the teenager’s perspective makes the composition more moved, for the other aspect, the adoption of the adult’s perspective compensate the simplicity of the teenager’s life experience, sublime the rational purport of the composition, diversify the composition’s content and strengthen the significance. In the forth section I analyze the traits of Qin Wenjun’s language characteristics. She adopt many rhetorical methods, such as use the grand words in daily life, use grave words in amusing way, homophonic, simulation and so on, she use the language in unusual way and generate strange effects. In the end, I reveal that why Qin Wenjun has a big success of her compositions is she adopts the theory of the zone of the proximal development and combine the education and amusement of her compositions together perfectly. At last, I put forward that the little defect of Qin Wenjun’s writing is lack of the imagination.Qin Wenjun is a specific type of Chinese contemporary children’s literature’s writers, her successful experience tell people a lesson: it’s only by absorbing nutrition from ancient and modern Chinese literature and foreign literature,take an active part in innovations in article form and language style could the contemporary writers change the old prejudice of compulsive and stiff inculcating and create the children images which symbolize the era spirits to satisfy the Chinese teenagers’ mental hungry. Qin’s inferior aspects to the perfect foreign children’s literature writers is a shrinking reflection of the big level gap between Chinese children literature and the excellent foreign children’s literature, it implies us there is a long way to make more efforts to turn Chinese children’s literature from large amounts productions to high quality.