Jiangnan Cultural Horizons Zhang Kangkang Novel Writing

Regional Culture has been deeply rooted in the essence of literature since it came into being. Yet literature itself, with the demonstration of Regional Culture, has been existed both at home and abroad for thousands of years. The Jiangnan Culture, however, is full of tenderness and elegance obtaining culture-based tradition, free will, individual consciousness publicity, as well as other characteristics from its sophistication and flexibility. These distinct cultural elements have cultivated Jiangnan writers' disposition, art styling and thinking modes, and the esthetic appeal, and means of expression with the result that works with Jiangnan landscape display the unique culture of spirituality, water and flexibility.Zhang Kangkang, being different from the majority of local writers, was a woman writer born in the Jiangnan River, but far away from hometown. With life experience in Hangzhou, Heilongjiang and Beijing, she, however, strongly displays Jiangnan Culture elements that are permeated into texts. This thesis carefully examines Zhang Kangkang's creation from the perspective of Jiangnan Culture researcher. It offers significant connotations and literature resources as further support to embody the characteristics of Jiangnan Culture, restores scenes of Jiangnan, unscrambles the Jiangnan Culture-based "flexibility" demonstrating in women, and tries to explain the theme of human nature conveyed by the culture. Meanwhile, for the distinctive personal experience, Zhang Kangkang's works are the demonstration of "psychological Jiangnan" by means of imagery, fairy-tale adaptation as well as transplanting Jiangnan landscape, which unfold the "implantation" of Jiangnan Culture to the author. Still, the "rootless" state causes the tendency to end novels by the "running away" of figures, which usually takes "water" as the carrier, to evade issues yet with the author's emphasis on salvation to serve as "a way out". In a word, Regional Culture inter-acts the creation of writers dynamically. The research on this area should take the overall outlook of each piece into consideration as well as distinction of individual differences. This is also the answer to the mutual relationship between Jiangnan Culture and Zhang Kangkang's creation, and how it affects her creations and achievements.