Songs Of Life Inside And Outside The Siege.,

Chi Zijian is a writer with unique value and charm in contemporary Chinese literature. Since her debut in 1985, Chi has been farming diligently and quietly on her own literary fields. The changing outside world never concerned her, nor did she submit to popularity or conformity. Love is the core theme of her works for over 20 years, no matter they are on human, landscape or history. Chi stays with love and brings warmth with her into the Chinese literature arena.This thesis is to explore the sentiments and affections of the heroines, women's experience and perception of marriage and love, and peculiarity of the feminine narration in her works. The foreword will introduce Chi's significance in contemporary Chinese literature, the studies about her and the perspectives and the good of this thesis. The thesis will be divided into four parts on:Part one of this thesis explores, in sight of males and females in matrimony, the sentiments and affections of women, from the perspective of females. In her works over two decades, Chi has shown us various living female figures in all different life stages, be her a young girl fancying, but confused with love, or an mid-aged woman playing daughter, mother and wife's role. And Chi has been tolerant and generous in love for her male characters, though tapped on their personality flaws sometimes.Part two digs into the women's experience and perception of their own marriage and love in picked Chi's works. While Chi's earlier works showed us maids hesitating about marriage, her works on affectionate couples of ordinary people brings harmony among love, marriage and routines. Under her brush, sex in harmonious marriage, sex based on unconstrained life impetus and sex powered by and to compliment natural wildness all lead to the nature and essence of human being.Part three discusses over the narrative peculiarities of Chi's marriage-love novels. As a female writer, Chi always goes from a female's perspective, but not contained in one way. Her works are full of suspensions by blocking-up plots, but will always come to a regression, telling us her understanding of the uncertainties and contingencies of life and her tender feelings for this world. Imageries pervade her novels with a beauty which seems intangible, natural and poetic.