Constant Change In The Shanghai Writer Ye Lingfeng

Between 1920s and 1930s, Ye ling-feng, as one of the earliest Haipai writers, is an active member in Chinese literary world. His novelistic writing only lasted 12 or 13 years and his works are not too many. Because Ye ling-feng was once classified one of those "gifted scholar+hoodlum", he has not been paid enough attention for a period of time. After the medium-term of 1980s, there are more and more comments on Ye ling-feng's writings, but they don't have some certain praise.In fact, Ye ling-feng's novelistic writing is very characteristic. Although their themes that fasten on affection field are changeless, his writing methods are diversified and his writing experience isshort but complex------at first , he is a young fellow of theChuang-zao organization. After it changed its direction, Ye ling-feng became one of the earliest Haipai writers. In this period, he wrote New-sense style novels by modernistic methods, at the same time, he also wrote popular common serialize novels for the press. After the war, Ye ling-feng stopped his novelistic writing.So this study will put Ye ling-feng's novels into the whole literary circumstance of 1920s and 1930s, in order to find out the reason of Ye ling-feng's literary choice. We will also summarize his novelistic writing's gain and loss, its historical experience. From this study, we can open out some tendency of Chinese literary development between 1920s and 1930s. We will also analyze thistendency's source and its probably trend.Some ways to research:First, we will use the comparative way to make clear why Ye ling-feng and other three senior writers of Chuang-zao organization chose different ways of writing and their inevitability, although their styles were similitude and their starting points were near at the first period of time.Second, we will study the characters of Ye ling-feng's novels in the early days of his novelistic writing, and the reasons that formed these characters through these ways of analyzing Ye ling-feng's life experience and the literary world pulse of that time.Third, we will study the reason of how Ye ling-feng's novels developed in that way at its later period. We will compare Ye ling-feng's novels with three main writers of New-sense genre to look squarely at his novels' gain and loss, to find the subjective and objective reasons why he didn't continue his novelistic writing along Haipai's way.This study draws a conclusion: Ye ling-feng is a diligent Haipai writer who was seeking after new writing methods continually in invariable novels themes. Although there are success and failure in his writings, they can give us an open window to study Haipai's development, and they can also give the modernistic writing some good uses for reference.