A Study Of The Changes Of “Young People Image ” In Fang Fang’s Novels

“Young people image” in literature is an important slice for writers to observe era and social life.Young people in every era have their own spirit.The construction of “young people image” has been the key point of writing in modern and contemporary Chinese literature.Fang Fang’s novels also continue to pay attention to “young people image”.“Young people image” in Fang Fang’s novels has different pedigrees and types due to changes of era.Young people as a whole were characterized by the combination of idealism and youthful spirit between 1982 and 1985.Two “groups of young people image” in fission of reality were highlighted in the novels from 1986 to late1990 s.Young people in cities with pain that they comprehended the harsh reality while they could do nothing to deal with it,others like “Qi Ge” who did what they can to change their fate.However,young Tu Ziqiang who comes from a rural area endures adversity and misfortune silently.The changes of “young people image” in Fang Fang’s novels are closely related to Chinese modernity.Meanwhile,“young people image” as the significant symbol examines the Chinese modernity.Young people pursued and embraced modernity with the conception of“achieving the Four Modernizations” from 1982 to 1985.The deep anxiety of Fang Fang about the period of social transformation was revealed from 1986 to late 1990 s.With the deepening of the process of Chinese modernity,the negative factors of modernity have been more prominent.Problems like the “alienation” of people,the grabbing of power and money,the hidden worries of consumer society,the urban residency of intellectuals were concentrated on young people.Tu Ziqiang’s Personal Sorrow written by Fang Fang distinctly embodies the drawbacks of modernity,the opposition of urban and rural binary structures as well as the solidification of social classes.Fang Fang’s youth imagination is of unique significance to the history of literature.On the one hand,the creation of “young people who were in 1980s” and the exploration of intellectuals’ sadness in the transformation of society,the two new qualitative elements constitute her youth imagination.On the other hand,Fang Fang also opens a new perspectiveof the narrative of “people from rural areas entering to cities”,that is,to question and reflect on the myth of “individual struggle”.The problem that Fang Fang deduces the inevitability of young people’s fate by “contingency” needs the attention of Fang Fang and other writers.The changes of “young people image” in Fang Fang’s novels reflect Fang Fang’s deep thinking and the sense of social responsibility.