【现当代文学史论文】《ChangesinChineseFictioninthe1990s》.docVIP

Changes in Chinese Fiction in the 1990s Chen Sihe and Yi Jing Yi Jing:Pronounced changes have taken place in fiction writing in China during the 1990s，and critics have held“solemn”ceremonies to assign new“definitions.”What do you think of this? Chen Sihe:Some critics have indulged too much in Western post-modernist theories and they exaggerate the post-modern elements in Chinese culture under the impact of a market economy .When we consider the development of theories一from post-modernism to post-colonialism to the Third World一we cant help thinking about the imitation of modern Western writers by Chinese fiction writers of the 1980s.Critics are now unconsciously repeating the theoretical errors of the 80s by trying to make the independence of modern Chinese writers from Western models the defining line between fiction writing of the 80s and that of the 90s. Critics become impulsive when literature falls to a low ebb .They are so eager to find something new and unique so that they can bid farewell to the fiction of the 80s that they risk magnifying these new，developing elements and placing them in opposition to the entire body of post cultural revolution literature .The rush for quick success will definitely reduce the seriousness and scientific nature of these elements when they are used as propaganda for the market economy. Yi Jing:In the early 90s，intellectuals were faced with a dilemma by the onslaught of the market economy.They lost their traditional role at the center of society and became marginalized .What effect has this had on fiction writing? Chen Sihe:As the duality of opposing principles gradually dissolved，intellectuals little by little abandoned their traditional humanistic position，and writers gave up their knowing tone of enlightenment and their ideological inflexibility .They entered a polyphonic structure of relativism，and tried to correct the bigotry of the elite culture in the writings of the 80s .and re-examined the