The Research of Wang Lu-Yan''s Local Novels

• Main Authors: I-Chi Chang, 張鎰麒
• Other Authors: 呂正惠
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17773352354545240080

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 中國文學系碩士在職專班 === 96 === 1920-1930 years is an era when regionalism was a dominant theme in Chinese literature. After the May Fourth Movement, the traditional agricultural society was slowly transformed into a modern, industrialized one. Many regional writers with rural background chose a path to an urban, modern civilization and actively embraced modern wave of new ideas and culture. When they looked back to their hometown, what they saw was the bleak and underdeveloped part of the society with people living in extremely barrenness and depression materially and spiritually. This kind of contrast led these writers to a strong sense of traditional criticism. Wang Lu-Yan(王魯彥), a nativist writer from Zhenghai(鎮海), Zhejian(浙江) illustrated the bitter lifestyle of seaside rural villages with descriptive touch. His works were successful narration on the destruction of the rural self-sufficient economy by the invasion of industrial civilization and capitalism. They were also the reflection of people’s state of mind when the industrial civilization crushed rural economy. Furthermore, through the overall illustration of his description of the rural life and his nostalgia to the childhood memory, readers have a clear picture of the lives of those who belong to the lower class of the society and the folk custom of spiritual dependence on the land. Images of the folk life in the Chinese modern society were presented. Chapters of this essay follow Wang Lu-Yan’s nativist writing stages—“Pomelo,” “Gold,” “The Angry Rural Village,” and ‘patriotic writing during the resistance war against Japan.’ The analysis of his novels of different genres. Crave for with this research chance through his writing, words that were charged with regional characteristics, this is a rediscovering of the general illustration of his contemporary rural society in the eastern Zhejian region in China.