The Research For Fangfang’s Writing Under The Consumption Culture

Against the current environment of Consumption Culture, there is a huge changefor the lifestyle and aesthetic manner. With the impact of the current consumptionideology, the Chinese Literature has been transformed. Under the influence of theMedia industry, fast-food culture and visual culture has became very popular. In orderto cater to this fashion, we have entered “the era without pioneering”.For the current Chinese literature, Fangfang is very special. Her writing alwaysfocus on the suffer and misery of ordinary people. She tries her best to write in aruthless and calm way to express the dark side of human beings. In this context, shedoes not belong to any literary genre. She consistently insists on the her own positionand refuses to follow the general tend. Her writing always based on the realexperience of her own. She expresses her pursuit for the value and meaning of theliterature and aesthetic by the creative writing. During the30years, she wrote manyworks about love, kinship and friendship; she pays more attention to the spiritualworld of the underclass and intellectuals; she also interpret the uncertain fate&spiritual world for us.The essay based on the90s’ social and literary environment against theconsumption culture. By this way, we can analysis the environment for Fangfang’swriting and use it as the background information for research.The essay including3chapters.The introduction part is mainly about the literary environment of90s under theconsumption culture. We can use this as the background to research Fangfang’sworks.The first chapter expounds that Fangfang has a sense of mission for the life andthe world. In the environment of consumption culture, some writers chase for moneyand disregard the writer’s mission. However, Fangfang pays close attention to the lifeand the world. She creates a special world with her unique experience and self-sufficient spirit. This chapter will expound Fangfang’s sense of mission from thefollowing aspects: the predicament of ordinary people, the concept of fate, thehistorical effect, the critical position etc.In the second chapter, we will discuss two kinds of popular writing subject:female subject and crime subject, so that we can understand Fangfang’s achievementand progress in her writing. This chapter conclude those2subjects. On the contrary,Fangfang’s writing has exceed the common works. Even though the subject is similar,the style of writing is quite different. Most of female writing focus on lust of themodern urban women or private writing, but Fangfang always pursuits for women’sspiritual value and predicament. Most of the crime stories want to draw readers’attention, but Fangfang always focus on the policemen’s action, personality and fate.We can find more deeper meanings about history, society, culture or humanity.Fangfang devotes herself to write about the life and spirit.She is far beyond thecommon writers.The third chapter describes Fangfang’s pursuit for the idealism and spiritual value.In the current environment of consumption culture, Fangfang is frustrated. However,she hold on to the idealism from start to the end. She denies the current trend, but shestill has hope. She leads us to fight for the truth, the good and the beautiful. Shealways writing by her heart, filling with the mercy&love and giving us hope. Fromthese aspects, we can see that Fangfang cares about people. Only by this, can wedevelop our spiritual value along with her.The summary part makes a conclusion for Fangfang’s pursuit for writing.Nowadays, the spiritual value has been influenced by the consumption culture, butFangfang stick to the pursuit for soul and spiritual. In this part, we will expound thatFangfang will not surrender to the general trend and it is the wise way. In themeanwhile, it is also very difficult for Fangfang to build the spiritual world by herwriting. There is a long-distance way in front of her.