A Study Of Dystopian Novels In Chinese Utopian Narratives

At the beginning of the 20th century,the classic anti-utopian fiction of western left a deep impression on readers with its strong social critical function,while China's anti-utopian novels only emerged in the 1980s and 1990s.Influenced by China's local politics,society and traditional literature,China's anti-utopian literature presents another unique form:the use of literary texts to describe the construction process of the whole entity utopia to expose the problems in this process to achieve the goal of anti-utopian.This paper defines it as anti-utopian with utopian narrative novel.This paper mainly discusses the uniqueness of Chinese anti-utopian with utopian narrative novel based on some works of Ge Fei,Yan Lianke,Li Peifu and Liu Jikun,etc.This thesis consists of three parts:introduction,text and conclusion.The first part of the introduction name rectification of China's anti-utopia,According to sort out the concepts of utopia,dystopia and anti-utopia,points out the connotation of anti-utopian concept used in this paper,and summarizes the research status of anti-utopian literature in China.The text is divided into three chapters.The first chapter mainly explores the causes of Chinese anti-utopian with utopian narrative novel.First of all,the great changes in the social environment after 1978 provided the foundation for the liberation of literary thought,while the flood of foreign thoughts influenced the literary creation in the new period,which provided the ideological basis for the generation of anti-utopian literature.Secondly,the domestic physical utopia movement after the founding of China provides a realistic basis for the creation of anti-utopian fiction,and a large number of anti-utopian novels are created based on this history.Finally,the anti-utopian with utopian narrative novel is deeply influenced by the utopian tradition in China,which is translated into a part of the novel.The second chapter is based on the analysis of the text,according to the three processes of the utopian practice,to reveal the various questions that have been made.First of all,the utopian concept of creation is a projection of individual or an elite group of individual desires,which brings the whole utopian practice into a testing ground for individual desires.Secondly,the utopian practice has to involve leadership and group participation,the individual desires of the leader and the unconscious behavior of the group have made utopian practice a farce.Finally,when a utopian society seemingly good appears in front of people,the leaders in order to maintain their dominant position,and turn the transcendental utopian ideal into the social ideology that maintains their rule,the utopia eventually turns into the dystopia.The third chapter is that there's still an utopian spirit in these anti-utopian works,and in the modern age of materialism,the writer has always kept one side of the land.The conclusion summarizes the Chinese anti-utopian with utopian narrative novel and discusses the value and limitation of it.It also point out that the importance of concerned consciousness and utopian spirit of anti-utopian fiction existing in the present state of the social situation that material content greater than the needs of the spiritual.