On Fu Xiuying's Novels

The novels of Fu Xiuying has earned a great acclaim in the literary world for the bright style,elegant language and the unique lyricism.Fu Xiuying has published sixty-seven short stories and a long novel in the past decade.This article attempts to make a comprehensive analysis and discussion,attempting to discover the core connotation and grasp the aesthetic style.Under the impact of globalization,rural China is rapidly transforming from “rustic” to “modernism”,and facing the fate of deconstruction and reconstruction.Owing to the absent of material and mental foundation,the rural China is in the awkward situation of modernity.Fu Xiuying constructs the “Fang village” of spirit and starts to write from three aspects: the survival or disappearance of the natural scenery,the circulation in rural sentiment and the complex sexual relations.She tries to construct the Chinese experience through the story of Fang village that we can see the signs of the fission of Chinese modernity in the new century.With the accelerated disintegration of farming civilization,the countryside cannot meet the material and spiritual needs of the farmers who have been escalated by the city.Therefore,a large number of migrant worker swarm into the cities.However,they can only struggle at the bottom of the city.It is the ethical dilemma for the urban aliens who succumb to materialism or stay noble in spirit.Fu Xiuying writes the emotional regret and split-heart state of the urban women repeatedly.By the time,she writes the insignificant image of intellectuals who lost themselves under the temptation of rights and desires.Her novels show the confusion and incompetence of modern urban life.Fu Xiuying's novel rarely describe episodes.However,her novels often use the scatter perspective method to promote the development of the story and adopt the emotion as the main line.At the same time,Fu Xiuying rediscovers the landscape description and pays more attentions to the artistic conception of the fusion of virtual reality,and all these show that the writer is pursuing the lyrical tradition of Chinese literature.In addition,Fu Xiuying's novels often use elegant short sentences and poetic language,which makes her novels read like the return of classical vernacular,it is a return to the aesthetic strategy of Chinese lyric tradition.Some critics believe Fu Xiuying inherited Sun Li's writing style.They think that Fu Xiuying is the successor of the “He Hua Dian” School,but I don't think so.Firstly,Sun Li's novels often beautify reality and avoid contradictions.Contrary to Sun Li,Fu Xiuying never avoided ugliness,and she often considers contradictions and conflicts as the climax of novel emotions;Secondly,most of the females in Sun Li's writings are the images of “holy women”,but Fu Xiuying often creates ugly and depraved “mortal people”.Thirdly,Sun Li is good at depicting the beauty of human nature,but Fu Xiuying focuses more on the weakness and alienation of human nature.In short,Fu Xiuying and Sun Li have similarities in language style and landscape awareness.However,there are many differences between the two authors,and all this indicate that Fu Xiuying as the inheritor of the “He Hua Dian” School is till need to discussion.