Su Xuelin-a Lady Wandering In Tradition And Religion With May4th Spirit

Comparing with other authors in the modern literary world, Su Xuelin has lived a longest life. She has been writing for almost80years, and made great contributions in many fields including novel, prose, drama and literary review. Su has been influenced by the May4th New Culture Movement while burdened with traditional Confucian ideas, moreover, she was a convert to Roman Catholicism. Three different cultural philosophies mixed in herworks and formed a unique style.With refer to Su Xuelin’s life and works, this paper distributes the May4th Movementnew culture ideology, traditional Chinese culture ideology and Catholic ideology, whichinvolved in Su’s works, into three contradictions, and it analyses the specific features ofthese contradictions in her works to clarify the conflicts of her own ideology. Meanwhile,this paper analyses artistic characteristics of her literature by using narratological theoriesand aesthetic theories to define the artistic merits and status.