Appraise Praise Or Blame

In the history of Chinese modern and contemporary literature, there are a lot of controversies over Ding Ling in the long time .Whether the typical characters or her place in the literary history, even her moral quality, is always the controversial topic. It will be meaningful to research the course and the causes of controversies over Ding Ling .This thesis divides the course of research of Ding Ling into four periods. In the 1930's, the research began and her novel got great reputation. From the period of the War to Resist Japan's Aggressive to the founding of People's Republic, the research rose and fell between praise and critique. In the Wen Hua Da Ge Ming, the research in the domestic suspended while the external research received achievements. Since the 1980's, the research of Ding Ling opened up a new prospect and went into a new diverse phase from simplistic situation. Though Ding Ling have passed away almost twenties years ,now the controversies over her are not still end.In the history of research of Ding Ling, whether the typical characters or her place in the literary history is always the controversial topic. In the every sensitive topic with hot controversy, such as Sapphire characters, the change of artistic style and her important novel < The Sun is Shining over Sang Gan River > and the renew interpretation of her novels written in the liberated area, we can find a important problem which have influenced the literary improvement. The controversy over Sapphire character means the refresh of methodology of literary criticism. Since 1980's , the criticism to the change of her artistic style which has cause the controversy over the position of < The Sun is Shining over Sang Gan River > in the literary history have aroused a important proposition about "the rewrite of literary history", namely the change of the view of literary history and the critical system. In 1990's, Ding Ling' novels written in the liberated area have become hot topics. In the tide of "the renew interpretation", these novels were been considered the field where many kind of cultural power confronted .This tide gave the research a new method and a special train of thought. In a word, the controversies over Ding Ling concentrate many complicated thinking and art factor of Chinese modern and contemporary literature. What have caused the controversies over Ding Ling in the almost eighties years?This is the criticality of the research of Ding Ling. Objectively speaking, the every controversy related to the social and cultural transform. In the turn point, the mainstream of the times and the literature trend of thought had decided the literary critical standard. In the subjective standing, different research workers had different critical standing which mainly included ideology sound, intellectual sound and feminism sound. Research workers always took different narrative tactics to outstand their own sounds.So the history of research of Ding Ling is only methodic and narrative history where there are not absolute truth. We should pay attention to what every kind method and narration have and not have , and do our own judge or enrich our knowledge.