Pious And Lonely Native Rye

In the history of modern Chinese literature, Sun Huifen is a writer that can not be neglected, especially when native literature is mentioned. With a life experience alternating between the city and the country as a rich resource of material, an equal and brotherly attitude towards villagers, and deep warmth and mercy shown in the images under her pen, Sun's novels have established her a unique position among the numerous writers of native literature. With a combined method of cultural criticism and aesthetic criticism, this thesis attempts to define the influence of the conflict between the memories of the rural life and the urban experience through detailed analysis of the text of Sun's works. Also in the way of analyzing the successes and failures in Sun's works, this paper tries to draw consideration what Chinese native writers should do in their process of creating in order to push the native literature to a higher stage. As introduced below, the whole thesis consists of four chapters.Chapter One, A Life Experience Alternating between the City and the Country, which is composed of three parts, describes in general the writing career of Sun. The memories of country life accumulated over ages were the main sources of the writer's creation, without which Sun's works had been impossible to come out. Meanwhile, the experiences of city life were the motive of Sun's writing, without which Sun's novels had been impossible to reach such a high level in their themes, no to speak of acquiring their characteristics. The conflict between the rural and urban culture drove the writer to return spiritually to the country very naturally when lost in the city. Taking the country as her spiritual homeland, the writer depicted warmly the rural life with a merciful attitude towards the characters, hence accomplished the spiritual redemption of the writer herself.Chapter Two is entitled the Spiritual Homeland Forever-the Mountain Village of Xiema. Sun, lost in her city life found her first spiritual homeland, the mountain village of Xiema, focusing on which she created a series of brilliant novels that brought the prosperity phase of her career. Centered on The Mountain Village of Xiema and referring to other important works in the series of Xiema, this chapter clarifies the characteristic...