Gorgeous Gown Of Life Full Of Lice - To Restore The Qualities Of Eileen Chang

For more than a decade, Zhang Ailing has been popular both throughout the country and abroad. She has conquered many readers with her unique talents, making herself idol in their minds.But, if we probe her real life and examine her works carefully ,we would find that what constitute Zhang Ailing' s character are her pessimism, suspicions, vanity and vulgarity,which come from her hostility and hatred to thesociety and to others.Born in government official's home, Zhang Ailing hadexperienced a family misfortune, which brought her much hardship. The unexpected drop from her celebrated family badkgound to a status of common people led to her separation with the outside world and her disillusionment with life. It should be noted that Zhang Ailing' s suspision and being over-sensitive to her family members, her seemingly born melancholy and pessimistic character, her nihilistic and fatalistic outlook on life, and her pursuit to vanity and pleasure are all rooted in her own personality and can thus be attributed to her nature.The hostility and hatred to the society and other people can be seen throught Zhang Ailing' s works:the disinterestedness to others' pain and misfortune;the abnormal characters in her works and the conflicting relationship between them;the dark, cold and bleak settings;the acrid and harsh tone;the disintegration anddenial of the sacred and the beautiful;the desperate themes and the desolate endings, etc. The ghostly abnormality and the human normality constitute the dual-connotation of Zhang Ailing' s works, and it is obvious that the former gets the upper hand.Zhang Ailing, with her nature color, is "dressed in a new piece of splendid garment, but covered with lice", as she interpreted the life.It cannot be denied that Zhang Ailing' s works has made up the weakness or even filled in the blank for the mondern literature, and has influenced greatly the present literature creation. With Zhang Ailing, Chinese modern literaure seems to be more complete and show greatly variety. However, lack of care to the public, lack of self-examination and her narrow-mindedness all made her works monotonous and poor in connotation, lack of greatness, and therefore, make it difficult for its author to stand in the line of great writers in the world.