Crossroad And Reversion

This paper makes Xiao Hong and Eileen Chang’s literature survival as the main topic, researching the complex relationship between their writing, living and self-consciousness.Chapter1is the similarity of Xiao Hong and Eileen Chang’s writing, and make "narrow and limited" as the key word to research female wring in modern China, in the same time to find the causal chain by explore the positive and negative effect about it.Chapter2and3is the analysis about the integrity and fundamental difference about Xiao Hong and Eileen Chang around the topic of Identity and Time/Space. Chapter2is mainly about the content of text, to find the difference between two of them through the introduction of concept of "poet" and "dramatist" in Nietzsche’s theory. This is the key difference about them. And actually this is not a self-conscious choice. It’s determined by their own survival situation. Through this thread of thought to the end, Eileen Chang who seems less traditional was more tending to the habit of thinking and quality of traditional Chinese intellectuals than Xiao Hong. Chapter2is mainly about the form of text, to explore their potential psychological structure and avant-garde. These are huge difference between two of them and other modern writers, and also a huge negligence about their achievement. Through this tread of thought, Xiao Hong, a woman seems orthodox, is the one who reach father in revolution of form which is obviously because of her tougher experience.Chapter4is the Diachronic of Xiao Hong and Eileen Chang’s writing. Xiao and Chang both have communicated with the environment and critical discourse, and then make their own subtle "evolution". Xiao Hong has introduced "Children’s perspective" into his work, to avoiding the head-on collision with mainstream discourse and maintaining her position in the left-wring writers. Eileen Chang has gained increasingly understanding and sympathy about her character by sinking into other people’s soul, and in some point lost her critical attitude.