Stitching The Tapestry: Narrative Of The Sing-song Girls Of Shanghai

The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai is a masterpiece of modern literature which has inherited Golden Lotus, Dream of Red Mansions and other classical narrative tradition.The novel described brothel prostitutes of Shanghai in the Late Qing Dynasty, drawing out sections of different sensual stories of the mortal world. But the unique choice of narrative structure and narrative techniques, making the legendary story not expect to bring readers the feeling of enchanting,but full of rich scent of everyday life, displayed the style of flat and approaching nature.In all kinds of its artistic achievements, narrative art is undoubtedly the most characteristic and worth studying. At present, the narrative research is mainly in the macroscopic structure and medium theory narration, lacking of careful details investigation in the micro level of novel text. Therefore, this paper will focus on narrative study deep into the text skin texture based on the repeated texts close reading.The first chapter of the paper is to explore the narrative focus, selecting several highlight focal points to grasp the whole narrative context and the emotion of characters.The second chapter analyzes the contrast technique widely used in the novel. The third chapter is to explore the interlude technique of writing throughout the novel by some concrete examples. The fourth chapter is the narrative interpretation of the hiding writing, particularly emphasis on revealing the hidden crack articles, which indicated the traditional narrative tends of author’s obscure strokes.