Appetency And Lust In The Vanity Metropolis

Shi Shuqing,a Taiwan writer,spends her time circling between Taiwan,Hong Kong and America.She calls herself an “islander”.Her writings in Hong Kong get to the peak of her creation.Meanwhile,she no longer confined to the women`s world.And she began writing various people beyond gender.Shi Shuqing presented life style in Hong Kong as an outsider,combining with her own experience.This paper will analyze the flashy space in Hong Kong and the critical scrutiny which she payed to the luxurious and empty life in the metropolis.Then I will analyze the desire of characteristics in her story of Hong Kong.Shi Shuqing is good at describing people because of her major in drama.She focuses on the concern of human nature in her novels.The Victoria Club,which is a symbol of the pouring colonial building,causes the writer to summarize her experience of Hong Kong.The book named Hong Kong Trilogy makes a prostitute carry one hundred years of colonial history in Hong Kong.Shi Shuqing`s novels in Hong Kong have expanded the scope of literature,highlighting the breadth and depth of her creation.