Study On Later Works Of Eileen Chang Self-rewriting Take Novels Of The Fall Of The Pagoda And The Book Of Change As Examples

As a distinctive modern Chinese writer, Eileen Chang has created a large number of literaryworks, including novel, prose, drama script and literary work, her letters were also studied aspart of the literature. Eileen Chang witnessed the history of modern China. Roved hithe andthither, Eileen Chang had once lived in Shanghai, Tianjin, Hong Kong, the United States andother places. All of the experience made her a dismal but appealing legend to the critic. Actually,Eileen Chang is a legendary woman in the republic of China. Her life was a tragedy, butgorgeous.It is Eileen Chang who is affectionate, honesty poverty but talent. In recent years her finalworks were published constantly and won such strong attention that even more than other writers.In2010, the English version and traditional Chinese version The Fall of the Pagoda and TheBook of Change were published successively. Later in May2011, the two novels as her Englishautobiography in simplified Chinese were published by Beijing October literature and artpublishing house, in the mainland.The Fall of the Pagoda and the Book of Change are narrated by different ages of person, aperson who is so much like Eileen Chang’s life experience that people regard them as herautobiography. Both of them are written in detail and full of autobiography color, so that they aresignificant for the study of Eileen Chang. The Fall of the Pagoda takes Eileen Chang’schildhood from4to18years old as the main line to describe, including she escaped from herfather and went to find her mother. The Book of Change takes lady Eileen Chang’s experience inHong Kong from18to22as content, including her university of Hong Kong, suffered the WorldWar II, finally she returned to Shanghai. To tell the truth, the two autobiographical novels inEnglish are wrote for the American readers. If we can view Eileen Chang’s belief of love by herformer works, we see another faith in the Fall of the Pagoda and The Book of Change which islife. These two works are not only represent Eileen Chang’s view of life, world, but also a key tohow to understanding her creation and interpret the novel.Together with the Little Reunion, the Fall of the Pagoda and the Book of Change can beview as Eileen Chang’s three phases of life, and give the critic new direction to research the mostimportant while obvious example is that all comment works on her needed to be rewritten. Due to historical and political reasons, the lack material makes comment on her is not complete for along time. Secondly, compared with her former works in text, these three works present adifferent style, and they will change part of our cognitive and inherent understanding aboutEileen Chang. By the three works, we can get a new Eileen Chang, quite common but concernedabout the fate of the nation.This article will mainly pay attention to the Fall of the Pagoda and the Book of Change bytext analysis. The research compares to her former works, try to summarize and achieve aconclusion her style of early phase and later period on the basis of the theory of text analysis. Atthe same time, it describes a general condition of her mind and spirit, explores the reasons forsuch changes and motivation of Eileen Chang from the perspective of literary ontology value. Italso probes into her self-identity, self-rewriting and complete reconstruction of her literary worldby choosing the representative novels of early and late periods for example.