Chili 's Novels Theory

Chili is a female writer who enjoys a fairly good popularity in Chinese contemporary literature. Since the 1980s, when "neoportraying novels" established their fames, her works have been in constant changes. Chili's writing has experienced a migration to fashionable writing from an ideal pure literature and an approach to the superficialized urban love literature from richly-implied townspeople literature. She has buried herself in the writing of townspeople, from superficially to deeply, from sensationally to rationally. She depicts accurately the aesthetic demands and life demands of the urban common people in an age when China steps forward from a closed and poor planned economy to an opening and prosperous market economy. The thesis explores Chili's writing experience and draws out her novel world from two aspects, namely, townspeople and female literature. Besides, the thesis also discusses the meaning and defects of her writing.From the perspective of townspeople literature, Chili's unique contributions to the Chinese literature mainly lies in her creation of a full and unique world of "Han-flavor" by copying their life in Wuhan, an important industrial city in current China and her vivid and reasonable artistic description of the life of townspeople who mostly lived at the bottom of society at that time. The depiction of the townspeople's life has been an indispensable component of the Chinese world of letters since the May 4th Neoliterature Movement. There have been such excellent and famous writers as Laoshe, Zhang tianyi, Liu naou, Mu shiying, Zhang ailing, Su qing during the period of modern literature and Dengyoumei, Lu wenfu and Feng jicai during the new period. Chili carries forward this literary tradition, but more than that, she opposes it. In her novels, there are neither the criticism against philistine culture or attachment to the romantic charm of the traditional Chinese culture, both of which used to be embodied in the works of such mainstream writers as Laoshe and Lu wenfu in the new history of Chinese literature nor the description of dragging out an ignoble life among the urban "Flowers of Evil" in a "troubled times" which was once the patent of the non-stream writers and the group of sensationalist. Chili's significance is manifested not only in her continuation for the Chinese townspeople literature a uniquely regional life of Wuhan townspeople in the 80s and 90s and in her contributions to the Chinese literary world a "Chinese-flavor" culture in addition to the "Beijing-flavor", "Tianjin-flavor","overseas group" and "Suzhou lanes", but also in both her display of a complete set of measures of value in the townspeople's culture and her recognition of and indulgence in this from of culture as intellectual herself. The appearance of Chili's is an opposition of the predominant mainstream parole against the cognition and standardization of the world of townspeople. It is also a divergence from the life notion that "the world is absurd" cherished by the Pioneer Literature that flourished in the mid-80s. Chili's attention to individual's fate and inquiry about the truth of living, together with the Pioneer Literature comprise the dismemberment from the ideal paroles and mammoth narration, which has dominated the world of letters for a long time.As a female writer, Chili didn't take feminism as a guideline for his literal creation at first, and for one time, she even discard the difference in viewpoints between two genders. Her "neoportraying novels" were once considered 中性 by critics in the 1980s. However, Chili didn't stop her insight and consideration of the bisexual world and women's fate. Since the 90s, in the context of "neoportraying", her female conscious began to stand out " From female's distinct perspectives and experience to retrospect the man-dominating culture," she doubts, opposes and even overrun the man-centerd culture. In her works, man world is filled with absurdity, turmoil, desire, depression and uneasiness. On the contrary, female world is blessed with hope, brightness, conf...