"The Modern China" In The Mirror Of Ding Ling

The thesis, with the research on Ding Ling in American academic circle before and after the Cold War as the object of study, is not only as a review of research, but it also reflects on the cultural and political connotation of the history of studies, with the help of the particular subject,"Research on China" in America, and its research paradigm. The thesis is most concerned with the fact why these researchers chose Ding Ling and how they saw revolution and modernity through Ding Ling. It also expects to discuss the knowledge transformation of Chinese in America, with the help of the individual case of Ding Ling.The thesis is divided into two chapters. The first chapter begins with "The History of Modern Novel" and reviews how the research on Ding Ling in America during the Cold War period establishes binary opposition vision of politics and literature. It includes the argument between Xia brothers and Prusek about two kinds of history perspectives of literature and historical narration, the feminism research prospective initiated by Bai Lu’s so called "the unhappy marriage of Marxism and Feminism", and the academic transformation of Yi-tsi Mei through abeyance of argument about ideology.The second chapter describes the breakthrough cf the Ding Ling research paradigm under the influence of the Post-Modernism theory in the Pest-War period. It explores how Ding Ling was reexamined in the research vision with rewriting the literature history and reflecting the "Modernity" as the starting point. Citing David Der-wei Wang, Lydia He Liu, Liu Jianmei, Haiyan Lee, Haiping Van and so on as representatives, it discusses how researchers devoted to exploring "another" modernity factor constrained by the classic left wing narration and the national state narration, redefining the relationship among emotion, revolution and modernity, and showing the opposition between the politics of difference and the universal discourse hegemony.