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On The Ethical Writing In Sun Huifen 's Local Novels

Posted on:2016-05-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H X JiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2175330482952942Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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In Chinese contemporary literary world, the woman writer Sun Hui Fen was born in Zhuang He County, Liaoning Province, who is a religious “local rye”. Since the first novel "sit on the bed" has been published in the early 1980 s, Sun Huifen always kept on writing the life about the countryside, and she was seen as an important representative of the contemporary "new vernacular novels" because of her outstanding performance. Sun Huifen showed the daily life and the ethics of the rural areas because of her unique female consciousness and her own unique life experience, and revealed the strong local ethics and culture consciousness in her works. By observing the local countryside, we can see that the ethical evolution occurred in the course of modernization in China, and the ethical dilemmas encountered on Chinese farmers. Sun Huifen revealed the variation of these ethics, but also made a critical reflection and constructive thinking on the contemporary status of local ethics.This paper is composed of three parts: introduction, main body and conclusion.The introduction part mainly introduced Sun Huifen’s personal experience, creations and the emphasis of the novel. The article defined the concept of local ethics, family ethics, human ethics, life ethics, and pointed out the research ideas, innovation and research significance.The second chapter mainly elaborated the declining and salvation of the human ethics in Sun Huifen’s novels.Firstly, this paper expounded that the local society is changing from the traditional "acquaintance society" to the modern "stranger society"; Secondly, the traditional rural society is not a stranger’s acquaintance society, and people maintain the relationship by favor. But in the process of modernization, the local society is more familiar with the trend of the utilitarian and the indifference, and the traditional principle of mutual benefit shift to the pursuit of economic interests of the material; Thirdly, this paper also expounded the confusion and thinking of the ethical order, in the face of the ethical situation, people began to seek the spiritual way, and the poor spiritual predicament made people’s spirit become extremely difficult.The third chapter mainly analyzed the living ethics between the urban and rural areas in Sun Huifen’s novels. Firstly, most of farmers still hold their lands, as the main force of modern rural areas; Secondly, the chapter revealed the cultural differences have always been rejected migrant workers in the city, and the rural women in the process of integration into the city were in a more vulnerable position, farmers can not find a sense of presence in the city; Thirdly, the chapter mainly discussed the farmers who can’t find the ownership had to return home, but after the return, they found that the ethics of the traditional rural areas have been lost, the spirit of the people back to the village still can not find a way out, just like migratory birds.The epilogue part mainly showed the writing meaning. Between the rural society and modernity collision, the lack of rural ethics is speeding up to the deterioration. The writer Sun Hui fen did not check in the criticism of the country, but actively explore the possibility of integration between urban and rural areas, and seek the commonality between rural and urban areas, written with transition of new vernacular narrative.The conclusion part mainly pointed out the significance of Sun Huifen’s local ethics writing. Rural society experienced the evolution of the contradiction in the exchanges and collisions with modernity, the lack of rural ethic is speeding up the deterioration of the rural society. Sun Huifen didn’t stop critique of the countryside, but actively explore the integration of urban and rural areas, seeking similarities and characteristics between urban and rural areas. She is writing a transition period of Neo vernacular narrative.
Keywords/Search Tags:Sun Hui fen’s novels, local ethics, family ethics, Etiquette ethics, Survival ethics
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