Wang Shuo, In The Contemporary Cultural Context

Chinese contemporary culture constructions have been in amuch-complicated social and cultural content: There is strained relations betweenmodernizing and nationalizing, secular spirit and human culture spirif, history'sca1es afld mora1 scales, practical rationality and value rationality, etc. Wangshuohas been aPpeared to the stage which is fu1l of dilemma and anxiety. Wangshuohas been misread'as a symbol of rebellion as soon as he appearso So he burdenshistorical heavy responsibility. In fact, Wangshuo affirms value models of mothercurrent cuIture with a concea1ed means o. Part 1 The cu1tura1 context of Wangshuo's aPpearance: Meanings ariseby clashing with elite cultuxeFollowing the starting of modernized prOjects with Chinesecharacteristics, secu1ar and commercial time has already come. These differefltviews on these developing secular society, cultural fOrm and value ideas i has beenthe mark of intel1ectua1s' internal division in 1990' s. This fact is crystaIlized in'the discussion about the human culture spirit of 90' s. It is the intellectuals'response which is worth paying much anention to o This response originates fromcontemporary society and cultllre and iatellectllals' identity crisises, and it is akind of self reflection and resistance of intellectua1s against their marginal status oWith a opposing human cuIture and heretical pose, Wangshuo's aPpearance mustbecome the target of public censure o Much less Wangshuo's merci1ess \ denouncedattitude towards ifltellectuals ? The advocators of "human culture spirit )) refutesWangshuo to the last point that reflects their anxieties. dissatisfaction andresistance against margina1 status oPart 2 FauIt on the right side: Text analysis as an example ofdeconstructionThe deconstruction thought has two stratums: One is self evident: Theother is Iatent. As a practical operation, the deconstruction' internal stratum ismain1y symbolized in meanings of texts. It means that originaIly enlighted andgreat theme narration has been dissemb1ed, as we1l as 1iving fable and profOundnarration. These make narration fragmentary, meanings vacant and profundity tobe abolished. The other writing means of deconstruction is that expressing itsantiphrasis. tense and taunt. (example for Zhuwen. Xukun. Qiu Huadong )The deconstruction strategy of Wangshuo has been developed by words and endedby deconstructing concepts or meanings completely oWangshuo deve1ops his word deconstTuction in two ways: One is disposingwords. This results in changing of the original backgrounds of words and bringsan effects as rhetoric. lb present words is the other wayso By the context,Wangshuo teases and ridicules some vaIue prohibitions. extaflt orders andestablished powers aBy p1acing the elastic word space, Wangshuo diminishes the core ofconfrontation and ifltensity of words. He takes the context as a word play betWeen" an adult" and '' a child". And so he reaches his intenis of diminishing soft1ypolitics and history.' Part 3 Narcissism and being humiliated: TO classicalize the townspeopleideo1ogyThe mass cu1ture in behalf of Wangshuo is only an echo of mother currentculture. Because his characters fal1 into the same order, in which external no-valuehides internal value orientation, and because some same acts which lack of vitalforce and individuality serve general trend at last. Wangshuo ) s charactirs indulgein counting on themselves with a affirmative means, and they deal with historicaloppress with a dizzy means. In another word, they get p1easant sensation bynarcissism and being humi1iated simultaneously oAs redeeming the re-vans of Wangshuo's works, it is impottant to poiflt oat thistrend of expressing being-humiliated by narcissism...