PDF《Hong Kong in Chinese Literary》

2 Shanghai literature became the primary . Yan Jia Yan(严家炎)'

s Zhongguo xiandai xiaoshuo Liupaishi 中国现代小说流派史(History of School of Chinese Contemporary Novels) and Lun xiandai xiaoshuo yu wenyi sichao 论现代小 说与文艺思潮 (Contemporary Novels and Literature Trends) study the image of Shanghai city in new-feeling school '

s literature . Wu Fu Hui(吴福辉)'

s Dushi xuanliuzhong de haipai xiaoshuo 都市漩流中的海派小说 (Shanghai Style Novels in Urban Flow) explored Shanghai regional culture through Shanghai urban novel. Wu'

s Thesis Xiaoshuo shijiezhong de richang shanghai 小报视界中的日常上海(Daily Shanghai in the Sight of Newspaper) analyzed the modernity and citizens'

cultural awareness of Shanghai from newspaper reports and supplements .Except exploring Shanghai, Zhao Yuan(赵园)'

s book Beijing: cheng yu ren 北京:城与人(Beijing : The City and People)was also a good representative studied of Beijing city in literature. This book digs out different images about Beijing from many kinds of literature. In addition, Zhang Ying Jin(张英进)'

s The City in Modern Chinese Literature &

Film : configurations of space, time, and gender hardcover deserves

1 Richard Daniel Lehan, The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History(California: University of California Press,1998),6-8.

2 Zhang Hongshen 张鸿声, '

Wenxue zhong de chengshi'

yu '

chengshi xiangxiang'

yanjiu 文学中的城市 与 城 市想像 研究 [The Study of City in Literature and Urban in Imagination ]. Literary Criticism, no.

2 (2007): 116-122.

4 attention. This book analyzed many Chinese novels, movies, dramas and poems to study images of cities including Beijing and Shanghai from Late Qing dynasty to 1940s. Zhang paid much attention to interpret urban mentality and urban experience behind literature. In terms of Hong Kong urban life , there were many articles that analyze Hong Kong image from literature. For example , authors study Hong Kong during Japanese occupation from Zhang Ailing(张爱玲)'

s fictions, understand Hong Kong poor people'

s hardship from Huang Guliu(黄谷柳)'

s novels, find the criticism to Hong Kong'

s commercialization through Liu Yichang(刘义鬯)'

s fictions, and realize the awareness of Hong Kong appeared since 1960s by Xixi(西西)and Li Bihua(李碧 华)'

s articles. Zhao Xifang(赵稀方)'

s Xiaoshuo xianggang 小说香港(Fictions of Hong Kong) summarized the urban history hide in fiction and the interaction between fiction and Hong Kong. Zhao divides fiction about Hong Kong into three kinds : narrative from the colonizers, narrative from mainland Chinese, narrative from local people.3 Different narratives described different urban images. I chose Chinese writers'

narrative about Hong Kong . Precisely speaking, my study focuses on Chinese left-wing writers'

works . The British colonizes wrote a large amount of literature about Hong Kong with superior minds. Unlike British colonizers, as out-comers, Chinese left-wing writers from mainland China hold relative objective views to wrote Hong Kong society, which give us a new

3 Zhao Xifang 赵稀方, Xiaoshuo xianggang 小说香港 [Fictions of Hong Kong] (Hong Kong: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2003), 1-2.

5 perspective that is totally different from the colonizers'

. During

1945 to 1949, Hong Kong local writers'

works were not apparent because their works focus on historical novels and dramas rather than writings about real urban life. On the contrary, Chinese left-wing writers paid much attention to Hong Kong daily life from microscopic view and macroscopic view. So, my study is only on Chinese writers'