A Thesis On Eileen Chang’s "Escape""Return" And Her Literary World

In modern society, China is in the transition period of traditional and modern society, to escape from or return to the traditional, to return to or escape from the modern...This equally difficult to go on or retreat dilemma obvious reflect on many modern writers:the self escape and return to the social reality life and thinking, feelings even national, state. Thirty years of modern literature, in a sense can be called the writers "escape time", reflected in the literary world, is the process of the hero’s painful "escape" and difficult "return". Eileen Chang is the member of the "escape and return" tide.Eileen Chang’s "escape" and "return" is closely related to her own experience. This paper will be based on the three levels about family, love, the common custom and power, exploring two aspects of Eileen Chang’s "escape and return" from her life and her literary world. From the view of her own experience, her escaping from the family because of the lack of motherly and fatherly love, her escaping from the love because of the failure of family and love, the recognition on the common custom and the knowledge of the political power of the complex relationship is related to the troubled times and her feudal families. The escape and return from the family, love, the common custom and power project onto her literary world, so there is the Zheng Chuanchang, Ge Weilong, Bai Liusu, Cao Qiqiao’s escape from and defend the family, the escape and return of the<Love in a Fallen City>, the recognition on and the escape from the common custom and the power in the<When I was young> and<lust and caution>.