Constructing Oneself In The Absence Of Love:The Study Of Han Qingchen’s Short Stories

Han Qingchen,a Chinese writer of children’s literature who insists on the tradition of realistic writing,prefers the children in trouble and presents a world of lack of love.The children in her works are scarred by the absence of love.The writing of the absence of love deeply influences the style and narrative tone of her works and becomes its outstanding creative feature.Han Qingchen’s creation involves several styles,among which children’s short stories are the most representative.And the literary expression of the absence of love deserves further exploration.In the absence of love as the theme,Han Qingchen’s short stories can be divided into three types,mainly including the lack of love from relatives,friends and society.The insufficiency caused more mental suffering to children than physical injury.She uses a series of imagery including plants,spaces,running and more to show children’s difficult process of growing up.The characters in her works are in a complicated living environment,and the fate of childhood is often tragic,thus forming a melancholy narrative tone.It is her common narrative strategy to set up the contrastive role to realize the contrast,so as to highlight the common predicament of one or both sides.Among them,there are not only the predicament caused by the differential treatment of others,but also the predicament of self-choice.In this process,her writing inevitably reflects the tendency to expand contradictions into misery.In addition,the writer often highlight the mirror role of self-existence played by others in personal growth.Despite lack of love,The protagonist’s world is not a cold one.As a responsible writer,Han expresses her concern in her works.On the road of self-construction,there are not only adults to guide and help them face and surpass this spiritual suffering,but also excellent peers as “models”of growth.At the same time,she also attaches great importance to showing that teenagers rely on their own internal strength to transcend themselves and explore the possibility of breaking through in their own struggle.