Yan Geling is a renowned Chinese descent female author in the contemporary society. In the past nearly thirty years of creation, she has achieved abundant fruits.The author possesses rich life experience and is so serious towards writing, whose works are commendable, especially the description on female characters. Yan Geling pours her understanding about history, age, human nature into the female characters in her novels which is expressed in an artistic way. Yan Geling pays attention to the different women’s psychological world using her unique vision and delicate emotion. She combines her own perceptual emotional experience and expounds the female world in a new way through decades of artistic exploration. The author continues her work in the context of the East—West fusion of two cultures, so her literature writing possesses the significance of cross—cultural clash, which is also her unique value in the Chinese modern and contemporary literature.This paper is divided into four chapters, which uses the writing purpose of displaying the human nature that Yan Geling adheres to when she creates characters and stories as clues. Through the analyses about the female images in Yan Geling’s writings, I intend to discuss profoundly the female consciousness of a series of female characters.The first chapter mainly presents Yan Geling’s life experience and her main works. According to the diachronic clues, this part reveals the reasons that impel the author to form the main writing idea of expressing feelings and human nature. Yan Geling’s legendary life experience has a far-reaching influence on her literary creation. The second chapter principally analyzes the female images in Yan Geling’s works, reveals the human power contained by characters of different identities and informs us to feel Yan Geling’s artistic standard that selects the most outstanding plots of testing human nature to lay out. In the third chapter, the magnificent female world built attentively by Yan Geling is analyzed through interpreting Yan Geling’s representative of works. The content of the fourth chapter reveals the rich meaning about female consciousness in Yan Geling’s novels on the basis of the full interpretation of Yan Geling’s colorful female world.In the past thirty years of writing career, women in various forms shaped by Yan Geling have entered our field of vision. A lot of people hold infinite expectations about Yan Geling’s writing in the future. We all believe that she can continue to create more classic works which describe women and reveal human nature. |