A Study On Family Ethics Relationship In Chi Li 's Novels

In the late1980s，Chi Li laid foundations for her status as a creative writer in theliterary world with the trilogy of life，including The Annoying life，Don’t Talk about Loveand The Sun was Born. As one of the representatives of New-Realism, Chi Li’s creations arewell-known for the vivid depiction of both worldliness and commonness of family life. Shepays lots of attention to the daily life as well as to the emotion experience of each individual,and the relationships involved in the creations between parents and children, husbands andwives, mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law turn out to be a unique feature of her works.The thesis tends to start from Chi Li’s concrete production of novels, combining textinterpretation and theoretical analysis together, and by a meta-analysis of the typical familyethical relationships in her novels, it intends to explore Chi Li’s peculiar family values andmoral construction hiding behind the works from perspectives of cultural psychology,sociology, ethics, and psychoanalysis.The introduction has briefly summarized the development of Family Ethics Fictions inthe history of modern Chinese literature from both vertical and horizontal dimensions,making a discussion about the development direction of family ethics fictions.At themeantime, it outlines concisely Chi Li’s research results as well as the current study of hernovels in recent years.In the first chapter, it mainly discusses about the parent-child ethics. In the first part, itexplores the formation of parent-child idea from the angle of writer’s growth. And bycombining the writer’s childhood experiences and the experience of raising her daughter, ithas a deep study of how the parent-child relationship has been developing and then formed.And in the second part, it studies the father-daughter interaction from the perspective ofpsychology, and discusses about the two types of images of father in the works. The thirdpart shows the mother-daughter relationship which is both full of love and resentment, andmakes a specific study of the matriarchal culture in the city. The last part chiefly introducesthe parent-child views in Chi Li’s novels.In the second chapter, it mainly discusses about marital（husband and wife）ethics. Thefirst part tells of in Chi Li’s family ethics fictions three types of abnormal family ethicalrelations, from the depictions of which it analyzes the family values and the moralconstructions of hers. About the second part, it does a research on Chinese traditional loveand marriage pattern, exploring the realistic reasons why sexual relations have gradually attached much importance to its life meaning rather than its physiological significance. Inthe third part, it describes the ideal men and women from the writer’s view,then discusses indetail the existence of the two types and the necessary qualities to become such men andwomen. The sexual concept in Chi Li’s novels is to be introduced in the last part.As to the third chapter, it mainly explores the distinctive artistic charm of Chi Li’sfamily ethics fictions. In the first part, it introduces two different kinds of narration patternsin family ethics fictions.Meanwhile, it makes a specific discussion mainly from twolevels-----the psychological pattern and the image pattern. In the second part, it narrates theartistic form of reconstruction of stimulating imaginary space to discuss the unique sense ofart expressed by Chi Li’s works. In the third part, it studies carefully the family ethicsfictions from the aspect of linguistics, chiefly discussing about the mixed use of dialects andslang words in her fictions.The conclusion is to summarize the ideas of family ethics in Chi Li’s novels. EileenChang and Chi Li are both good at describing secular family life.However, the families theycreated under the pen are very distinct in their descriptive style, for the two writers havedifferent personalities and also experience different environments in which they werebrought up. The conclusion mainly has a concrete discussion about the unique family valuesand the life philosophy conveyed by Chi Li’s family ethics fictions.