A Study On The Gentleness And Sincerity Manifestation In The Works Of Yang Jiang

As a well known writer and translator,Ms.Yang Jiang’s works involve translation and literary creations,including drama,prose and fiction.Yang Jiang’s writing style is unique,broad-minded with natural and plain language,which demonstrated both gentle and resilience characteristics.Throughout the nearly 80 years of literary creation journey,her writings consistently maintain a gentle and sincere style.In Yang Jiang’s writings,the tender and sincere expressions are comprehensive.It’s consistency can be seen from three aspects:the theme expression,the characterization and the plot setting.In interpreting and presenting the theme,she chose to avoid ugly,violent,sad and melancholy scenes.She manages controversial issues in a neutral way.She also expanded her vision beyond the intellectual circles that she is familiar with,and cares about the people outside of the circle that are also struggling with life.Ms.Yang’s written characters don’t have perfect heroes or heinous villains,and she doesn’t directly express her liking and disliking towards them.In terms of plot design,Yang Jiang strives to avoid the intense conflict.She manages praise and criticism to the appropriate extent,and always leaves room for future change.The artistic form used in Yang Jiang’s writings also reflects the characteristics of gentleness and sincerity through humorous,implicit expression and emotion restraint ways.She replaced intense grief and anger with witty and light-hearted humor,and reflected the absurdity of things in a witty and funny way to bring out the critical information naturally and gently.From the perspective of content,the meaning of Yang Jiang’s works is profound.The implicit messages are meaningful and thought-provoking.Readers can build a deeper impression when they have a second thought on the hidden meanings.Her writings also revealed a cool and refrained atmosphere.The expression of emotion is well-managed by reviewing the matters from a different perspective to avoid the explode of emotions.The factors that forming the gentleness and sincerity in Yang Jiang’s writing can be explore from a few areas,which including her gentle personality,the liberality and freedom from her family,especially from her serious yet humorous father,as well as the tenderness and gentleness her mother demonstrated.Her father’s career as a lawyer allowed her to know the truth of society in advance and understands the fickleness of the world,which affected her views on the various life phenomena.Her long boarding school life and discipline trained her being a self-restrained person and able to judge things on her own independently.At the same time,Yang Jiang also absorbed elements corresponding to the gentleness and sincerity in the works of the great writers of both East and Western literature.