Mao Dun's Style And Influence Of Modern Chinese Literature

In the aftermath of May Fourth, women writer mushroomed to the center stage of literary creation. They were a new type of women themselves and they created new types of women in their stories, too. This paper discusses the types of new women in Ling Shuhua’s “The Embroidered Pillow,” “After Drinking,” and Feng Yuanjun’s “Separation,” and their voices that contest, question, or ironize the possibilities available to them in the new era.

The novel, “Mao’s Last Dancer”, was written by Li Cunxin. It tells his riveting tale of growing up in a poor family of six boys, living in a village in China under Mao’s reign. It goes on to share his eventual defection to the United States as an artistic dancer. His childhood was filled with both hardships and joys. But both helped him to grow as a resilient person to achieve once-thought impossible goals.

After a preliminary analysis of my constructed topic, a few common themes are clearly present and discernible in relation to Mao’s perception as a hero or villain. At such present time of my research, I am begging to develop and contextualise a clear understanding of how I will ultimately answer mu question and I have incorporated the aspects of inquiry as well as representativeness and corroboration already into my research. In relation to being a villain, it is clear the wide spread death and his subsequent concern as a result of his movements represents his criminal persona. This is coming across in my main pieces of evidence up to this point. This is also indicating Mao’s motives and subsequently the effect it had on a specific group of people, in this case is the Chinese’s public. His movements also indicate somewhat his self-interest in developing his humongous ideological campaign. Despite this, it is vital I further investigate how in comparison that these movements were responsible for his widespread perception of a hero and as such find a myriad of perspectives that develop a common idea that the implementation of movements such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural revolution was specifically the reason for Mao being viewed as a hero.

In order to better understand the criticism against these Chinese writers, we must first understand what is meant by orientalist thinking or orientalism for that matter. One of the authorities on the subject, Edward Said explains the term "Orientalism" and tackles the question of East and

The Sun of the Revolution by Liang Heng, is intriguing and vivid, and gives us a complex and compelling perspective on Chines culture during a confusing time period. We get the opportunity to learn the story of a young man with a promising future, but an unpleasant childhood. Liang Heng was exposed to every aspect of the Cultural Revolution in China, and shares his experiences with us, since the book is written from Liang perspective, we do not have a biased opinion from an elite member in the Chinese society nor the poor we get an honest opinion from the People’s Republic of China. Liang only had the fortunate opportunity of expressing these events due his relationship with his wife, An American woman whom helps him write the book. When

Hessler effectively uses pathos to draw my attention to Master Luo’s story and in doing so, he gains my sympathy for those in China with such story. Also, Hessler’s open assessments build my trust for Hessler’s words because I know that he is honest as he is just presenting the reader what he sees and what he learns from his experience with the environment and people which engulfs him, rather than presenting the reader something that is

In Communist China during the Cultural Revolution, almost all literature, as well as anything related to the west was banned. In Dai Sijie’s book Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Luo and the narrator, are sent off to the mountains to be re-educated because their parents are labeled enemies of the people. They have had almost no contact with literature, except for textbooks about industry and agriculture issued by the government. Miraculously, through another city youth sent away to be reeducated, the boys become exposed to Western literature, which greatly influences their actions. The literature they encounter gives them enjoyment and inspires them have new experiences, but these actions cause harm to them in the future.

In the novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie explores the power of literature and the impact it has on the narrator. The narrator is forced to move to an isolated mountain village for re-education during China's Cultural Revolution, in which the oppressive government prohibited art and literature. The novel examines the narrator’s dynamic character through the changes he experiences by reading banned Western novels. Western literature affects the narrator's thoughts and changes him from a shy introvert, into a pensive, imaginative character capable of independence. The western novels ignites the narrator's imagination, and he uses these fictional thoughts to process and endure his dreadful situations.

Natan Tataran 1/21/14 Honors English Literary Analysis Final Draft Ever since it first came to be, China has always been a patriarchal society, in which women had almost no rights and whose only role was to stay at home and to bear children. In the story A Good Earth, the author Pearl S. Buck uses very vibrant, realistic characters and symbolism to show how much O-lan supported her family. She also showed how women clearly played an important role in society, at this era in China, even if they were not acknowledged for it. Throughout the story, it is clearly visible to readers how O-lan is the backbone of Wang Lung’s family, and how her death affected many mentally, and physically. Buck skillfully uses the beliefs of old Chinese traditions

In the personal essay “My Mothers Tongue” (1990), Amy Tan, widely known author explains her insights on language and culture identity using details and memories from her own life experiences. Tan conceals that the language in which her mother used with her “was the language that helped shape the way [she] saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world” (1208) and in the process it made her who she is today as an author. Tan illuminates the euro centricity of the Master Narrative by retelling stories of her mother being treated poorly because of her “broken” or “limited” English. She recalls many past experiences where her mother suffered from bad service and treatment from restaurants, stockbrokers, and even hospitals. Using examples from her personal life Tan gets her point across about language and culture characteristics in order to show how Chinese culture is affected by the master narrative and also encourages others to include a variety of cultures in order to overcome bias opinions. Tan’s apparent audience can be ranged from the child of an immigrant to a doctor and offers an authentic and rich portrayal of Chinese history through her conflicting experience of her Chinese and American cultures.

Lao Tzu believed that human life is constantly influenced by outer forces; not unlike everything else in the universe. He knew that simplicity was key to all truth and freedom. He always encouraged those who followed him to observe and to seek to understand the laws of nature.

Prior to analysis, I have to admit my own limitation. This story is included in Chinese textbook, where footnotes explain comprehensively vocabulary that even college students without extensive studies in Chinese would not understand. Therefore, I lack an accurate sense of the accessibility of the text as a nowadays average Chinese reader, as much as an average literate reader back to the time when this story is published.

For the bulk of the mid- to late-20th Century, Eileen Chang’s name and literary prowess fell into obscurity as a result of events related to the Cultural Revolution and her own reclusion. In C.T. Hsia’s A History of Modern Chinese Fiction, he praised Chang for her use of "rich imagery" and "profound exploration of human nature.” In his book, he also claimed Chang to be “the best and most important writer” of mid-twentieth century China. Hsia’s remarks and Ang Lee’s film adaptation of her novella, Lust, Caution, have helped to bring Chang’s name back onto the literary scene.

Born in 1899 to parents of Manchu descent, Lao She was brought into the world of the late Qing dynasty and, due to his ethnicity, experienced childhood as part of the ruling elite. His father was killed in a street fight by Eight-Nation forces during the Boxer Rebellion in 1901. Quoted as saying ‘I didn 't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the foreign devils my mother told me about were more barbaric and cruel than any fairy tale ogre with a huge mouth and great fangs’ as a result of his father’s death, he developed a strong sense of nationalism at a young age. Lao She remained a great supporter of the May Fourth Movement - which favoured national independence and rebuilding Chinese culture and society – later claiming that it gave him a ‘new literary language’. In travelling to London in his 20s to work as a teacher, Lao She only further strengthened his sense of pride and value of Chinese cultural traditions, his love for China and desire to rebuild the country and educate youth grew. Following the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937, Lao She became hugely radicalised as anti-Japanese. He headed the All-China Anti-Japanese Writers Federation, which encouraged writers to produce nationalist writings, and his own work subsequently became vehemently patriotic and propagandistic. The two texts on which this essay is focused, Black Li and White Li and An Old and Established Name are both prime examples of writings of this nature.

The authors’ use of literature in the Taiwanese New Literature movement symbolized the Taiwanese common people’s struggle under a merciless and repressive government that had plagued people with poverty. Lu He-jo, Lai Ho, and Yang K’uei’s texts are similar because they all wrote under the Taiwanese New Literature movement’s ideals and their works revealed how the Japanese were incompatible with the Taiwanese and to influence the people to reject the Japanese rule.