Writing Across Boundaries: The Revolt of Chinese Writers

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 新聞研究所 === 102 === Via the works and life history of Chinese writers, this paper discusses how they penetrate from different themes and aspects through independent thinking and the subjective literature creation under the contemporary Chinese society and literary environment in an i...

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Main Authors: Pei-Chi Wu, 吳沛綺
Other Authors: Chao-Chen Lin
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9d8x4m
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Summary:碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 新聞研究所 === 102 === Via the works and life history of Chinese writers, this paper discusses how they penetrate from different themes and aspects through independent thinking and the subjective literature creation under the contemporary Chinese society and literary environment in an in-depth reporting form, to outline the writing borders and breakthrough strategies which Chinese writers will face is another main target. Meanwhile, in order to have an in-depth understanding of the writer’s living historical background, as well as the creation of the social and literary environment, the interviews and documentary are combined in this paper in order to organize the related concepts of Chinese contemporary literature, such as development process and rebel literature. On this basis, Chinese writers are the main interview subjects in this in-depth report, "boundary writing" creators with subjective, conflicting and the spirit of independent thinking are the focal points; to understand how the current Chinese writers use writing as their outlet and create interaction and impact to themselves and the current society while they are in such a complex environment. In the reporting chapter, we will first penetrate with the story by the writers in exile and outline the creative mood and writing process of Chinese writers via the perspective of creators. we will explore and summarize the issues which Chinese writers are concerned about from the above-mentioned. Meanwhile, the changes of Chinese literature in changing times with macroscopic point of view will be further discussed. In Chapter Two, this report attempts to penetrate by the system of Chinese book publishing and censorship and specifically outlines the review mechanism which Chinese writers are encountering. The author tries to understand the views on literary creation from contemporary Chinese official through interviews with the publishing editors. What kind of right attitude should they have between the borderline of restriction and openness? Where is the blurred boundary limits? Then, this report will describe the images of writers who take the social reality, ethnic and religious, historical records as the themes with stories of different writers, and to understand their creative context as well as their psychological journey and breakout strategies within their works. Finally, this report will make a conclusion on the aforesaid creation context and pressure limits after penetrating the stories and situations of different writers. In fact, the border restrictions that creators encounter are not simply the political force, but also the multi-control mechanism, such as commercial power and organizational strength. This report will specifically describe and organize this multi-control mechanism in Chapter Six and summarize the interviewees of this report again in order to describe their writing strategies and coping attitude.