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Talk:Yan Geling

2016-06-15T16:05:06Z

Yuki: /* My favorite novella from Yan Geling */

== What do you think of "The Flower of War" written by Yan Geling? ==
*Judy's reading review 2016.6.9

The same name film directed by Zhang Yimou did attract large numbers of audience,but it can not prove "The Flower of War" is a good work.

I think this novel consumes The Nanjing Massacre. It makes use of the theme of this disaster and add many attracting elements, such as war, rape, hooker, religion, etc. All plots at the service of these stunts and all characters serve the plots, so character may change casually if the plot has necessary. Zhao Yumo is so all-around that seems out of real. At the same time, when people read the novel with a attitude of bearing history in mind, they are already kidnapped by the novel to leave anger and tear, readers are consumed.

In addition, this novel advocates that every one is equal in front of the war, we all are the victims. However, I felt every one is not equal in the book.It seems that only Yumo and her sieters disguised as students to sacrifice their leaves, can they complete the purify of their “dirty” soul and became the women with great moral virtue.How ridiculous! If the war has to sacrifice some people to rescue some people, it should not to emphasize the lowness of the sacrificial lambs. Yumo and her sisters were not born to should be sacrificed. Yan Geling has a sense of superior and contempt attitude to people who has special occupation in her potential consciousness, which chills my heart.

Welcome to disscuss with me !

== My favorite novella from Yan Geling ==
My favorite novella from Yan Geling is the one called <The Sent-Down Girl>(《天浴》）.The work shows readers the harsh reality caused by the Cutural revolution and the human evil nature through a quite restrained narrative . Xiu Xiu,an innocent sent-down girl,was tormented and insulted by rural cadres,a sent-down boy and the female nurses.In order to get the chance to go back to the city, she gave up her dignity and sell her body ,just like other sent-down girls did.But it was just a fraud .Finally, she choose to die ,wishing death can get her rid of the misery and wash away her sins.She loves the life so much that she did'nt have the heart to commit suicide.So she begged the old Jin ,the kind-hearted peasant to kill her .The peasant who loved her deeply shooted her and then committed suicide. Death let them feel themselves completed and dignified.It is not just a tragedy about a girl or two persons .It is a tragedy about the era ,the society and humanity.[[User:Yuki|Yuki]] ([[User talk:Yuki|talk]]) 16:03, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Talk:Yan Geling

2016-06-15T16:03:37Z

Yuki: /* What do you think of "The Flower of War" written by Yan Geling? */

== What do you think of "The Flower of War" written by Yan Geling? ==
*Judy's reading review 2016.6.9

The same name film directed by Zhang Yimou did attract large numbers of audience,but it can not prove "The Flower of War" is a good work.

I think this novel consumes The Nanjing Massacre. It makes use of the theme of this disaster and add many attracting elements, such as war, rape, hooker, religion, etc. All plots at the service of these stunts and all characters serve the plots, so character may change casually if the plot has necessary. Zhao Yumo is so all-around that seems out of real. At the same time, when people read the novel with a attitude of bearing history in mind, they are already kidnapped by the novel to leave anger and tear, readers are consumed.

In addition, this novel advocates that every one is equal in front of the war, we all are the victims. However, I felt every one is not equal in the book.It seems that only Yumo and her sieters disguised as students to sacrifice their leaves, can they complete the purify of their “dirty” soul and became the women with great moral virtue.How ridiculous! If the war has to sacrifice some people to rescue some people, it should not to emphasize the lowness of the sacrificial lambs. Yumo and her sisters were not born to should be sacrificed. Yan Geling has a sense of superior and contempt attitude to people who has special occupation in her potential consciousness, which chills my heart.

Welcome to disscuss with me !

== My favorite novella from Yan Geling ==
My favorite novella from Yan Geling is the one called <The Sent-Down Girl>(《天浴》）.The work shows readers the harsh reality caused by the Cutural revolution and the human evil nature by a quite restrained narrative . Xiu Xiu,an innocent sent-down girl,was tormented and insulted by rural cadres,a sent-down boy and the female nurses.In order to get the chance to go back to the city, she gave up her dignity and sell her body ,just like other sent-down girls did.But it was just a fraud .Finally, she choose to die ,wishing death can get her rid of the misery and wash away her sins.She loves the life so much that she did'nt have the heart to commit suicide.So she begged the old Jin ,the kind-hearted peasant to kill her .The peasant who loved her deeply shooted her and then committed suicide. Death let them feel themselves completed and dignified.It is not just a tragedy about a girl or two persons .It is a tragedy about the era ,the society and humanity.[[User:Yuki|Yuki]] ([[User talk:Yuki|talk]]) 16:03, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

File:WangShuobyYou.pptx

2016-06-15T15:02:19Z

Yuki:

Wang Shuo

2016-06-15T15:01:20Z

Yuki: /* classroom presentantio */

== Biography ==

== works introduction==

== criticisms about Wang Shuo'Holligam Literature ==

Wang Shuo’s works have drawn much attention from critics, causing many controversies and debates. As we all know ,there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes. Critics hold different views on Wang Shuo and his hooligan literature. You can see some bones of contentions through the brief debate below.

bones of contentions:

Fight with fake sublimity VS Lost in nihilism

Deep irony VS Blasphemous joke

Civilian consciousness VS Privileged class mentality

Deep sorrow VS shallow happiness

A: I think Wang Shuo’s works especially those called “hooligan literature” are quite special and valuable. Wang Shuo intentionally keeps away from the kind of literature that seems to stand higher than the real life and always try to educate people with their fickle “truth”. He uses a variety of ironic parodies in his works to tear up the mask of fake sublimity, which may contains ideology ,some backward conventions and those self-righteous intellectuals.

B: Sorry to say that I can’t agree with you. Actually The protagonists in Wang Shuo’s works called “palying master” not only try to overturn the fake sublimity but also deny the value of culture, morality and life, which leads to nihilism . Therefore these cynics have no ideal or spiritual pursuit, take nothing serious and just live in void every day.
And another thing I should stress is that those brilliant ironies you appreciate are just blasphemous jokes by which those hooligans show their cleverness so they are not as meaningful and profound as you think.

A:You seem to have much misunderstanding on the “palying master”. Of course they have their own pursuit. As we can see in the works, they try to do something special to change their life and social status ,for example, the three protagonists in palying master form the three-T company to earn money and serve the public . Besides, as civilians, it’s quite brave for them to have the idea of resisting authority. Nihilism and hooliganism are just their means to fight against hypocrisy and ideology oppression.

B:Civilians? For my part, they have nothing to do with this word. Wang Shuo and his protagonists all grew up in military compounds in Beijing . Their family background once gave them privileges and superiority complex, which also enables them to go through a carefree juvenile time in the Cultural Revolution. As the finish of the Cultural Revolution, they don’t have the privilege any more ,which makes them feel a strong sense of loss. They are not willing to be ordinary people but they don’t have the ability to lift their social status. Therefore they revolt with blasphemous jokes and distinctive lifestyle. They look down upon the civilians from the bottom of their hearts according to the idea of strata ,which is learned from their former life experience. So as I put it ,they are just hooligans who think highly of themselves and favor the leveled society, which has passed away.

A: Well, I agree that the former life experience have great influence on them. But you always look at them with your prejudice. As critics we need to come closer to understand these characters. Yeah, just as you’ve said ,they go through their juvenile time in military compounds in the Cultural Revolution. At that time , they were told that “you are the successor of socialism, the master of the nation in future”. But suddenly everything changed . With the new social orders formed by the reform, they became nobody and have to enter a present where they are completely lost, recasting themselves in a new and unknown mold. They have to unlearn what they were taught throughout their youth, reinventing their own moral principles and narratives. It is so natural for them to have nostalgia for the life in the past and feel uncomfortable, frustrated ,and even deeply resented to the present. In my view, they are just poor people who linger about the border of the past and the present and they take advantage of hooliganism to express their discontent and to conceal their sorrow. It is through those paradoxical scenarios that Wang Shuo reveals the depth of individual disillusionment and alienation. And that ‘s why I think Wang Shuo’s works have social significance and literature depth.
--[[User:Yuki|Yuki]] ([[User talk:Yuki|talk]]) 09:39, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

== Wang Shuo's works in film ==

Compared with his achievement in literature, Wang Shuo has already attracted more attention in film and television industry. For example, the film 《Dream Factory》, which makes Feng Xiaogang become famous, was adapted from Wang Shuo’s novel 《You are not a layman》.
So, why Feng Xiaogang decided to edit Wang Shou’s work into a movie? Actually, both of them are willing to reflect the life in big cities of China, especially in here, in Beijing. Their works focus on the conflicts between the trouble shooters and the urban life. They believe it is the dramatic change in big cities that makes the trouble shooters (or the playing masters) different from real hooligans or vagabonds. And Feng Xiaogang also thinks that Wang Shuo has done a really good job on showing the mental world of those trouble shooters.

Well, I have to emphasize that the trouble shooters (or the playing masters) were not equal to the hooligans or vagabonds. Hooligans only do bad things for no reason (or perhaps just to release their pessimistic mood to the others); vagabonds are someone without a work. The trouble shooters are someone with a specialty in playing and trying to do good things, but in a ridiculous way. The trouble shooters in Beijing had been existed for a long time. They do not have stable income, or even don’t have a job. They just idled the days away, by using their playing specialties. In old times, they were called “wan zhu” in Chinese, which means somebody who spend time in doing nothing seriously. Since the beginning of 1990s, big cities in China like Beijing have changed a lot. Due to this, people in Beijing had to change their ways of life in order to adapt to the development of this city. Of course, the playing masters also tried to find another way of living. Some of them set up their own companies. In the film<Dream Factory>, they set up a company to help the others to realize their dreams. And also in the film named <The Trouble Shooters>, they set up a company called “Three ‘T’s” which means “替人排忧，替人解闷，替人受过”. These two companies were ridiculous but these were exactly what the playing masters would do. They look down upon the urban lives while they could not find better solutions. They could only do funny things to express their mockery to the reality.

Why the playing masters choose to be ridiculous? Why they can’t be normal people; be ordinary? Don’t you think they have the ability to find a fixed work and have stable salaries? Wang Shuo and I believe it is their spiritual uncompromising that lead their behaviors. In the past, Beijing was a place where you can do whatever you can to earn yourself a better life. We don’t need to pretend ourselves in order to climb to a higher position. People remained harmony by the spirit of ”局气” which means to be considerate, tolerance and understanding. The film which I acted as Mr. Six showed the lives of people who lived in the remaining of the old Hutongs. Since Beijing had become a modern city, the relationship between people has become more and more distant. This kind of feeling is just like, for example, you and your families as well as your neighbors living in a big house for a long time. One day, somebody came and decorated your house into something you had never thought about. Then they told you, you have to change your selves to living in your new house. Of course, the trouble shooters refused to change, because they think it is their own place, it is their home. They hope to live the life of the past. They don’t want to pretend living happily in a home which was controlled by others. So they use their own way to do the things they can even if it’s just in vain. This is definitely a joke, but somehow, it is also the reality. The reality that one day we might face in the future. Wang Shuo’s work of the trouble shooters makes each of us think about our own life, and also our own future.

== classroom presentantio ==

[[Media:WangShuobyYou.pptx]]

Wang Shuo

2016-06-15T15:00:42Z

Yuki: /* classroom presentantio */

Wang Shuo

2016-06-15T14:57:55Z

Yuki: /* classroom presentantion */

Wang Shuo

2016-06-15T14:56:21Z

Yuki: /* Biography */

Wang Shuo

2016-06-15T14:52:43Z

Yuki: /* Wang Shuo's works in film */

= Biography =

== criticisms about Wang Shuo'Holligam Literature ==

Wang Shuo’s works have drawn much attention from critics, causing many controversies and debates. As we all know ,there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes. Critics hold different views on Wang Shuo and his hooligan literature. You can see some bones of contentions through the brief debate below.

bones of contentions:

Fight with fake sublimity VS Lost in nihilism

Deep irony VS Blasphemous joke

Civilian consciousness VS Privileged class mentality

Deep sorrow VS shallow happiness

A: I think Wang Shuo’s works especially those called “hooligan literature” are quite special and valuable. Wang Shuo intentionally keeps away from the kind of literature that seems to stand higher than the real life and always try to educate people with their fickle “truth”. He uses a variety of ironic parodies in his works to tear up the mask of fake sublimity, which may contains ideology ,some backward conventions and those self-righteous intellectuals.

B: Sorry to say that I can’t agree with you. Actually The protagonists in Wang Shuo’s works called “palying master” not only try to overturn the fake sublimity but also deny the value of culture, morality and life, which leads to nihilism . Therefore these cynics have no ideal or spiritual pursuit, take nothing serious and just live in void every day.
And another thing I should stress is that those brilliant ironies you appreciate are just blasphemous jokes by which those hooligans show their cleverness so they are not as meaningful and profound as you think.

A:You seem to have much misunderstanding on the “palying master”. Of course they have their own pursuit. As we can see in the works, they try to do something special to change their life and social status ,for example, the three protagonists in palying master form the three-T company to earn money and serve the public . Besides, as civilians, it’s quite brave for them to have the idea of resisting authority. Nihilism and hooliganism are just their means to fight against hypocrisy and ideology oppression.

B:Civilians? For my part, they have nothing to do with this word. Wang Shuo and his protagonists all grew up in military compounds in Beijing . Their family background once gave them privileges and superiority complex, which also enables them to go through a carefree juvenile time in the Cultural Revolution. As the finish of the Cultural Revolution, they don’t have the privilege any more ,which makes them feel a strong sense of loss. They are not willing to be ordinary people but they don’t have the ability to lift their social status. Therefore they revolt with blasphemous jokes and distinctive lifestyle. They look down upon the civilians from the bottom of their hearts according to the idea of strata ,which is learned from their former life experience. So as I put it ,they are just hooligans who think highly of themselves and favor the leveled society, which has passed away.

A: Well, I agree that the former life experience have great influence on them. But you always look at them with your prejudice. As critics we need to come closer to understand these characters. Yeah, just as you’ve said ,they go through their juvenile time in military compounds in the Cultural Revolution. At that time , they were told that “you are the successor of socialism, the master of the nation in future”. But suddenly everything changed . With the new social orders formed by the reform, they became nobody and have to enter a present where they are completely lost, recasting themselves in a new and unknown mold. They have to unlearn what they were taught throughout their youth, reinventing their own moral principles and narratives. It is so natural for them to have nostalgia for the life in the past and feel uncomfortable, frustrated ,and even deeply resented to the present. In my view, they are just poor people who linger about the border of the past and the present and they take advantage of hooliganism to express their discontent and to conceal their sorrow. It is through those paradoxical scenarios that Wang Shuo reveals the depth of individual disillusionment and alienation. And that ‘s why I think Wang Shuo’s works have social significance and literature depth.
--[[User:Yuki|Yuki]] ([[User talk:Yuki|talk]]) 09:39, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

== Wang Shuo's works in film ==

Compared with his achievement in literature, Wang Shuo has already attracted more attention in film and television industry. For example, the film 《Dream Factory》, which makes Feng Xiaogang become famous, was adapted from Wang Shuo’s novel 《You are not a layman》.
So, why Feng Xiaogang decided to edit Wang Shou’s work into a movie? Actually, both of them are willing to reflect the life in big cities of China, especially in here, in Beijing. Their works focus on the conflicts between the trouble shooters and the urban life. They believe it is the dramatic change in big cities that makes the trouble shooters (or the playing masters) different from real hooligans or vagabonds. And Feng Xiaogang also thinks that Wang Shuo has done a really good job on showing the mental world of those trouble shooters.

Well, I have to emphasize that the trouble shooters (or the playing masters) were not equal to the hooligans or vagabonds. Hooligans only do bad things for no reason (or perhaps just to release their pessimistic mood to the others); vagabonds are someone without a work. The trouble shooters are someone with a specialty in playing and trying to do good things, but in a ridiculous way. The trouble shooters in Beijing had been existed for a long time. They do not have stable income, or even don’t have a job. They just idled the days away, by using their playing specialties. In old times, they were called “wan zhu” in Chinese, which means somebody who spend time in doing nothing seriously. Since the beginning of 1990s, big cities in China like Beijing have changed a lot. Due to this, people in Beijing had to change their ways of life in order to adapt to the development of this city. Of course, the playing masters also tried to find another way of living. Some of them set up their own companies. In the film<Dream Factory>, they set up a company to help the others to realize their dreams. And also in the film named <The Trouble Shooters>, they set up a company called “Three ‘T’s” which means “替人排忧，替人解闷，替人受过”. These two companies were ridiculous but these were exactly what the playing masters would do. They look down upon the urban lives while they could not find better solutions. They could only do funny things to express their mockery to the reality.

Why the playing masters choose to be ridiculous? Why they can’t be normal people; be ordinary? Don’t you think they have the ability to find a fixed work and have stable salaries? Wang Shuo and I believe it is their spiritual uncompromising that lead their behaviors. In the past, Beijing was a place where you can do whatever you can to earn yourself a better life. We don’t need to pretend ourselves in order to climb to a higher position. People remained harmony by the spirit of ”局气” which means to be considerate, tolerance and understanding. The film which I acted as Mr. Six showed the lives of people who lived in the remaining of the old Hutongs. Since Beijing had become a modern city, the relationship between people has become more and more distant. This kind of feeling is just like, for example, you and your families as well as your neighbors living in a big house for a long time. One day, somebody came and decorated your house into something you had never thought about. Then they told you, you have to change your selves to living in your new house. Of course, the trouble shooters refused to change, because they think it is their own place, it is their home. They hope to live the life of the past. They don’t want to pretend living happily in a home which was controlled by others. So they use their own way to do the things they can even if it’s just in vain. This is definitely a joke, but somehow, it is also the reality. The reality that one day we might face in the future. Wang Shuo’s work of the trouble shooters makes each of us think about our own life, and also our own future.

Wang Shuo

2016-06-15T14:47:24Z

Yuki:

= Biography =

== criticisms about Wang Shuo'Holligam Literature ==

Wang Shuo’s works have drawn much attention from critics, causing many controversies and debates. As we all know ,there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes. Critics hold different views on Wang Shuo and his hooligan literature. You can see some bones of contentions through the brief debate below.

bones of contentions:

Fight with fake sublimity VS Lost in nihilism

Deep irony VS Blasphemous joke

Civilian consciousness VS Privileged class mentality

Deep sorrow VS shallow happiness

A: I think Wang Shuo’s works especially those called “hooligan literature” are quite special and valuable. Wang Shuo intentionally keeps away from the kind of literature that seems to stand higher than the real life and always try to educate people with their fickle “truth”. He uses a variety of ironic parodies in his works to tear up the mask of fake sublimity, which may contains ideology ,some backward conventions and those self-righteous intellectuals.

B: Sorry to say that I can’t agree with you. Actually The protagonists in Wang Shuo’s works called “palying master” not only try to overturn the fake sublimity but also deny the value of culture, morality and life, which leads to nihilism . Therefore these cynics have no ideal or spiritual pursuit, take nothing serious and just live in void every day.
And another thing I should stress is that those brilliant ironies you appreciate are just blasphemous jokes by which those hooligans show their cleverness so they are not as meaningful and profound as you think.

A:You seem to have much misunderstanding on the “palying master”. Of course they have their own pursuit. As we can see in the works, they try to do something special to change their life and social status ,for example, the three protagonists in palying master form the three-T company to earn money and serve the public . Besides, as civilians, it’s quite brave for them to have the idea of resisting authority. Nihilism and hooliganism are just their means to fight against hypocrisy and ideology oppression.

B:Civilians? For my part, they have nothing to do with this word. Wang Shuo and his protagonists all grew up in military compounds in Beijing . Their family background once gave them privileges and superiority complex, which also enables them to go through a carefree juvenile time in the Cultural Revolution. As the finish of the Cultural Revolution, they don’t have the privilege any more ,which makes them feel a strong sense of loss. They are not willing to be ordinary people but they don’t have the ability to lift their social status. Therefore they revolt with blasphemous jokes and distinctive lifestyle. They look down upon the civilians from the bottom of their hearts according to the idea of strata ,which is learned from their former life experience. So as I put it ,they are just hooligans who think highly of themselves and favor the leveled society, which has passed away.

A: Well, I agree that the former life experience have great influence on them. But you always look at them with your prejudice. As critics we need to come closer to understand these characters. Yeah, just as you’ve said ,they go through their juvenile time in military compounds in the Cultural Revolution. At that time , they were told that “you are the successor of socialism, the master of the nation in future”. But suddenly everything changed . With the new social orders formed by the reform, they became nobody and have to enter a present where they are completely lost, recasting themselves in a new and unknown mold. They have to unlearn what they were taught throughout their youth, reinventing their own moral principles and narratives. It is so natural for them to have nostalgia for the life in the past and feel uncomfortable, frustrated ,and even deeply resented to the present. In my view, they are just poor people who linger about the border of the past and the present and they take advantage of hooliganism to express their discontent and to conceal their sorrow. It is through those paradoxical scenarios that Wang Shuo reveals the depth of individual disillusionment and alienation. And that ‘s why I think Wang Shuo’s works have social significance and literature depth.
--[[User:Yuki|Yuki]] ([[User talk:Yuki|talk]]) 09:39, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

=== Wang Shuo's works in film ===

Compared with his achievement in literature, Wang Shuo has already attracted more attention in film and television industry. For example, the film 《Dream Factory》, which makes Feng Xiaogang become famous, was adapted from Wang Shuo’s novel 《You are not a layman》.
So, why Feng Xiaogang decided to edit Wang Shou’s work into a movie? Actually, both of them are willing to reflect the life in big cities of China, especially in here, in Beijing. Their works focus on the conflicts between the trouble shooters and the urban life. They believe it is the dramatic change in big cities that makes the trouble shooters (or the playing masters) different from real hooligans or vagabonds. And Feng Xiaogang also thinks that Wang Shuo has done a really good job on showing the mental world of those trouble shooters.

Well, I have to emphasize that the trouble shooters (or the playing masters) were not equal to the hooligans or vagabonds. Hooligans only do bad things for no reason (or perhaps just to release their pessimistic mood to the others); vagabonds are someone without a work. The trouble shooters are someone with a specialty in playing and trying to do good things, but in a ridiculous way. The trouble shooters in Beijing had been existed for a long time. They do not have stable income, or even don’t have a job. They just idled the days away, by using their playing specialties. In old times, they were called “wan zhu” in Chinese, which means somebody who spend time in doing nothing seriously. Since the beginning of 1990s, big cities in China like Beijing have changed a lot. Due to this, people in Beijing had to change their ways of life in order to adapt to the development of this city. Of course, the playing masters also tried to find another way of living. Some of them set up their own companies. In the film<Dream Factory>, they set up a company to help the others to realize their dreams. And also in the film named <The Trouble Shooters>, they set up a company called “Three ‘T’s” which means “替人排忧，替人解闷，替人受过”. These two companies were ridiculous but these were exactly what the playing masters would do. They look down upon the urban lives while they could not find better solutions. They could only do funny things to express their mockery to the reality.

Why the playing masters choose to be ridiculous? Why they can’t be normal people; be ordinary? Don’t you think they have the ability to find a fixed work and have stable salaries? Wang Shuo and I believe it is their spiritual uncompromising that lead their behaviors. In the past, Beijing was a place where you can do whatever you can to earn yourself a better life. We don’t need to pretend ourselves in order to climb to a higher position. People remained harmony by the spirit of ”局气” which means to be considerate, tolerance and understanding. The film which I acted as Mr. Six showed the lives of people who lived in the remaining of the old Hutongs. Since Beijing had become a modern city, the relationship between people has become more and more distant. This kind of feeling is just like, for example, you and your families as well as your neighbors living in a big house for a long time. One day, somebody came and decorated your house into something you had never thought about. Then they told you, you have to change your selves to living in your new house. Of course, the trouble shooters refused to change, because they think it is their own place, it is their home. They hope to live the life of the past. They don’t want to pretend living happily in a home which was controlled by others. So they use their own way to do the things they can even if it’s just in vain. This is definitely a joke, but somehow, it is also the reality. The reality that one day we might face in the future. Wang Shuo’s work of the trouble shooters makes each of us think about our own life, and also our own future.

Wang Shuo

2016-06-15T14:45:05Z

Yuki:

= Biography =

== criticisms about Wang Shuo'Holligam Literature ==

Wang Shuo’s works have drawn much attention from critics, causing many controversies and debates. As we all know ,there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes. Critics hold different views on Wang Shuo and his hooligan literature. You can see some bones of contentions through the brief debate below.

bones of contentions:

Fight with fake sublimity VS Lost in nihilism

Deep irony VS Blasphemous joke

Civilian consciousness VS Privileged class mentality

Deep sorrow VS shallow happiness

A: I think Wang Shuo’s works especially those called “hooligan literature” are quite special and valuable. Wang Shuo intentionally keeps away from the kind of literature that seems to stand higher than the real life and always try to educate people with their fickle “truth”. He uses a variety of ironic parodies in his works to tear up the mask of fake sublimity, which may contains ideology ,some backward conventions and those self-righteous intellectuals.

B: Sorry to say that I can’t agree with you. Actually The protagonists in Wang Shuo’s works called “palying master” not only try to overturn the fake sublimity but also deny the value of culture, morality and life, which leads to nihilism . Therefore these cynics have no ideal or spiritual pursuit, take nothing serious and just live in void every day.
And another thing I should stress is that those brilliant ironies you appreciate are just blasphemous jokes by which those hooligans show their cleverness so they are not as meaningful and profound as you think.

A:You seem to have much misunderstanding on the “palying master”. Of course they have their own pursuit. As we can see in the works, they try to do something special to change their life and social status ,for example, the three protagonists in palying master form the three-T company to earn money and serve the public . Besides, as civilians, it’s quite brave for them to have the idea of resisting authority. Nihilism and hooliganism are just their means to fight against hypocrisy and ideology oppression.

B:Civilians? For my part, they have nothing to do with this word. Wang Shuo and his protagonists all grew up in military compounds in Beijing . Their family background once gave them privileges and superiority complex, which also enables them to go through a carefree juvenile time in the Cultural Revolution. As the finish of the Cultural Revolution, they don’t have the privilege any more ,which makes them feel a strong sense of loss. They are not willing to be ordinary people but they don’t have the ability to lift their social status. Therefore they revolt with blasphemous jokes and distinctive lifestyle. They look down upon the civilians from the bottom of their hearts according to the idea of strata ,which is learned from their former life experience. So as I put it ,they are just hooligans who think highly of themselves and favor the leveled society, which has passed away.

A: Well, I agree that the former life experience have great influence on them. But you always look at them with your prejudice. As critics we need to come closer to understand these characters. Yeah, just as you’ve said ,they go through their juvenile time in military compounds in the Cultural Revolution. At that time , they were told that “you are the successor of socialism, the master of the nation in future”. But suddenly everything changed . With the new social orders formed by the reform, they became nobody and have to enter a present where they are completely lost, recasting themselves in a new and unknown mold. They have to unlearn what they were taught throughout their youth, reinventing their own moral principles and narratives. It is so natural for them to have nostalgia for the life in the past and feel uncomfortable, frustrated ,and even deeply resented to the present. In my view, they are just poor people who linger about the border of the past and the present and they take advantage of hooliganism to express their discontent and to conceal their sorrow. It is through those paradoxical scenarios that Wang Shuo reveals the depth of individual disillusionment and alienation. And that ‘s why I think Wang Shuo’s works have social significance and literature depth.
--[[User:Yuki|Yuki]] ([[User talk:Yuki|talk]]) 09:39, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Wang Shou’s work in films

Compared with his achievement in literature, Wang Shuo has already attracted more attention in film and television industry. For example, the film 《Dream Factory》, which makes Feng Xiaogang become famous, was adapted from Wang Shuo’s novel 《You are not a layman》.
So, why Feng Xiaogang decided to edit Wang Shou’s work into a movie? Actually, both of them are willing to reflect the life in big cities of China, especially in here, in Beijing. Their works focus on the conflicts between the trouble shooters and the urban life. They believe it is the dramatic change in big cities that makes the trouble shooters (or the playing masters) different from real hooligans or vagabonds. And Feng Xiaogang also thinks that Wang Shuo has done a really good job on showing the mental world of those trouble shooters.
Well, I have to emphasize that the trouble shooters (or the playing masters) were not equal to the hooligans or vagabonds. Hooligans only do bad things for no reason (or perhaps just to release their pessimistic mood to the others); vagabonds are someone without a work. The trouble shooters are someone with a specialty in playing and trying to do good things, but in a ridiculous way. The trouble shooters in Beijing had been existed for a long time. They do not have stable income, or even don’t have a job. They just idled the days away, by using their playing specialties. In old times, they were called “wan zhu” in Chinese, which means somebody who spend time in doing nothing seriously. Since the beginning of 1990s, big cities in China like Beijing have changed a lot. Due to this, people in Beijing had to change their ways of life in order to adapt to the development of this city. Of course, the playing masters also tried to find another way of living. Some of them set up their own companies. In the film<Dream Factory>, they set up a company to help the others to realize their dreams. And also in the film named <The Trouble Shooters>, they set up a company called “Three ‘T’s” which means “替人排忧，替人解闷，替人受过”. These two companies were ridiculous but these were exactly what the playing masters would do. They look down upon the urban lives while they could not find better solutions. They could only do funny things to express their mockery to the reality.
Why the playing masters choose to be ridiculous? Why they can’t be normal people; be ordinary? Don’t you think they have the ability to find a fixed work and have stable salaries? Wang Shuo and I believe it is their spiritual uncompromising that lead their behaviors. In the past, Beijing was a place where you can do whatever you can to earn yourself a better life. We don’t need to pretend ourselves in order to climb to a higher position. People remained harmony by the spirit of ”局气” which means to be considerate, tolerance and understanding. The film which I acted as Mr. Six showed the lives of people who lived in the remaining of the old Hutongs. Since Beijing had become a modern city, the relationship between people has become more and more distant. This kind of feeling is just like, for example, you and your families as well as your neighbors living in a big house for a long time. One day, somebody came and decorated your house into something you had never thought about. Then they told you, you have to change your selves to living in your new house. Of course, the trouble shooters refused to change, because they think it is their own place, it is their home. They hope to live the life of the past. They don’t want to pretend living happily in a home which was controlled by others. So they use their own way to do the things they can even if it’s just in vain. This is definitely a joke, but somehow, it is also the reality. The reality that one day we might face in the future. Wang Shuo’s work of the trouble shooters makes each of us think about our own life, and also our own future.

File:Wang Shuo.jpg

2016-06-15T14:34:32Z

Yuki:

Wang Shuo

2016-06-15T14:32:27Z

Yuki:

[[File:Wang Shuo.jpg|frameless|border|Wang Shuo]]

[ [ Media:WangShuobyYou DuS.pptx ] ]

Wang Shuo’s works have drawn much attention from critics, causing many controversies and debates. As we all know ,there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes. Critics hold different views on Wang Shuo and his hooligan literature. You can see some bones of contentions through the brief debate below.

bones of contentions:

Fight with fake sublimity VS Lost in nihilism

Deep irony VS Blasphemous joke

Civilian consciousness VS Privileged class mentality

Deep sorrow VS shallow happiness

A: I think Wang Shuo’s works especially those called “hooligan literature” are quite special and valuable. Wang Shuo intentionally keeps away from the kind of literature that seems to stand higher than the real life and always try to educate people with their fickle “truth”. He uses a variety of ironic parodies in his works to tear up the mask of fake sublimity, which may contains ideology ,some backward conventions and those self-righteous intellectuals.

B: Sorry to say that I can’t agree with you. Actually The protagonists in Wang Shuo’s works called “palying master” not only try to overturn the fake sublimity but also deny the value of culture, morality and life, which leads to nihilism . Therefore these cynics have no ideal or spiritual pursuit, take nothing serious and just live in void every day.
And another thing I should stress is that those brilliant ironies you appreciate are just blasphemous jokes by which those hooligans show their cleverness so they are not as meaningful and profound as you think.

A:You seem to have much misunderstanding on the “palying master”. Of course they have their own pursuit. As we can see in the works, they try to do something special to change their life and social status ,for example, the three protagonists in palying master form the three-T company to earn money and serve the public . Besides, as civilians, it’s quite brave for them to have the idea of resisting authority. Nihilism and hooliganism are just their means to fight against hypocrisy and ideology oppression.

B:Civilians? For my part, they have nothing to do with this word. Wang Shuo and his protagonists all grew up in military compounds in Beijing . Their family background once gave them privileges and superiority complex, which also enables them to go through a carefree juvenile time in the Cultural Revolution. As the finish of the Cultural Revolution, they don’t have the privilege any more ,which makes them feel a strong sense of loss. They are not willing to be ordinary people but they don’t have the ability to lift their social status. Therefore they revolt with blasphemous jokes and distinctive lifestyle. They look down upon the civilians from the bottom of their hearts according to the idea of strata ,which is learned from their former life experience. So as I put it ,they are just hooligans who think highly of themselves and favor the leveled society, which has passed away.

A: Well, I agree that the former life experience have great influence on them. But you always look at them with your prejudice. As critics we need to come closer to understand these characters. Yeah, just as you’ve said ,they go through their juvenile time in military compounds in the Cultural Revolution. At that time , they were told that “you are the successor of socialism, the master of the nation in future”. But suddenly everything changed . With the new social orders formed by the reform, they became nobody and have to enter a present where they are completely lost, recasting themselves in a new and unknown mold. They have to unlearn what they were taught throughout their youth, reinventing their own moral principles and narratives. It is so natural for them to have nostalgia for the life in the past and feel uncomfortable, frustrated ,and even deeply resented to the present. In my view, they are just poor people who linger about the border of the past and the present and they take advantage of hooliganism to express their discontent and to conceal their sorrow. It is through those paradoxical scenarios that Wang Shuo reveals the depth of individual disillusionment and alienation. And that ‘s why I think Wang Shuo’s works have social significance and literature depth.
--[[User:Yuki|Yuki]] ([[User talk:Yuki|talk]]) 09:39, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Wang Shou’s work in films

Compared with his achievement in literature, Wang Shuo has already attracted more attention in film and television industry. For example, the film 《Dream Factory》, which makes Feng Xiaogang become famous, was adapted from Wang Shuo’s novel 《You are not a layman》.
So, why Feng Xiaogang decided to edit Wang Shou’s work into a movie? Actually, both of them are willing to reflect the life in big cities of China, especially in here, in Beijing. Their works focus on the conflicts between the trouble shooters and the urban life. They believe it is the dramatic change in big cities that makes the trouble shooters (or the playing masters) different from real hooligans or vagabonds. And Feng Xiaogang also thinks that Wang Shuo has done a really good job on showing the mental world of those trouble shooters.
Well, I have to emphasize that the trouble shooters (or the playing masters) were not equal to the hooligans or vagabonds. Hooligans only do bad things for no reason (or perhaps just to release their pessimistic mood to the others); vagabonds are someone without a work. The trouble shooters are someone with a specialty in playing and trying to do good things, but in a ridiculous way. The trouble shooters in Beijing had been existed for a long time. They do not have stable income, or even don’t have a job. They just idled the days away, by using their playing specialties. In old times, they were called “wan zhu” in Chinese, which means somebody who spend time in doing nothing seriously. Since the beginning of 1990s, big cities in China like Beijing have changed a lot. Due to this, people in Beijing had to change their ways of life in order to adapt to the development of this city. Of course, the playing masters also tried to find another way of living. Some of them set up their own companies. In the film<Dream Factory>, they set up a company to help the others to realize their dreams. And also in the film named <The Trouble Shooters>, they set up a company called “Three ‘T’s” which means “替人排忧，替人解闷，替人受过”. These two companies were ridiculous but these were exactly what the playing masters would do. They look down upon the urban lives while they could not find better solutions. They could only do funny things to express their mockery to the reality.
Why the playing masters choose to be ridiculous? Why they can’t be normal people; be ordinary? Don’t you think they have the ability to find a fixed work and have stable salaries? Wang Shuo and I believe it is their spiritual uncompromising that lead their behaviors. In the past, Beijing was a place where you can do whatever you can to earn yourself a better life. We don’t need to pretend ourselves in order to climb to a higher position. People remained harmony by the spirit of ”局气” which means to be considerate, tolerance and understanding. The film which I acted as Mr. Six showed the lives of people who lived in the remaining of the old Hutongs. Since Beijing had become a modern city, the relationship between people has become more and more distant. This kind of feeling is just like, for example, you and your families as well as your neighbors living in a big house for a long time. One day, somebody came and decorated your house into something you had never thought about. Then they told you, you have to change your selves to living in your new house. Of course, the trouble shooters refused to change, because they think it is their own place, it is their home. They hope to live the life of the past. They don’t want to pretend living happily in a home which was controlled by others. So they use their own way to do the things they can even if it’s just in vain. This is definitely a joke, but somehow, it is also the reality. The reality that one day we might face in the future. Wang Shuo’s work of the trouble shooters makes each of us think about our own life, and also our own future.

Wang Shuo

2016-06-15T14:27:04Z

Yuki:

[[File:example.jpg|frameless|border|Wang Shuo]]

[ [ Media:WangShuobyYou DuS.pptx ] ]

Wang Shuo’s works have drawn much attention from critics, causing many controversies and debates. As we all know ,there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes. Critics hold different views on Wang Shuo and his hooligan literature. You can see some bones of contentions through the brief debate below.

bones of contentions:

Fight with fake sublimity VS Lost in nihilism

Deep irony VS Blasphemous joke

Civilian consciousness VS Privileged class mentality

Deep sorrow VS shallow happiness

A: I think Wang Shuo’s works especially those called “hooligan literature” are quite special and valuable. Wang Shuo intentionally keeps away from the kind of literature that seems to stand higher than the real life and always try to educate people with their fickle “truth”. He uses a variety of ironic parodies in his works to tear up the mask of fake sublimity, which may contains ideology ,some backward conventions and those self-righteous intellectuals.

B: Sorry to say that I can’t agree with you. Actually The protagonists in Wang Shuo’s works called “palying master” not only try to overturn the fake sublimity but also deny the value of culture, morality and life, which leads to nihilism . Therefore these cynics have no ideal or spiritual pursuit, take nothing serious and just live in void every day.
And another thing I should stress is that those brilliant ironies you appreciate are just blasphemous jokes by which those hooligans show their cleverness so they are not as meaningful and profound as you think.

A:You seem to have much misunderstanding on the “palying master”. Of course they have their own pursuit. As we can see in the works, they try to do something special to change their life and social status ,for example, the three protagonists in palying master form the three-T company to earn money and serve the public . Besides, as civilians, it’s quite brave for them to have the idea of resisting authority. Nihilism and hooliganism are just their means to fight against hypocrisy and ideology oppression.

B:Civilians? For my part, they have nothing to do with this word. Wang Shuo and his protagonists all grew up in military compounds in Beijing . Their family background once gave them privileges and superiority complex, which also enables them to go through a carefree juvenile time in the Cultural Revolution. As the finish of the Cultural Revolution, they don’t have the privilege any more ,which makes them feel a strong sense of loss. They are not willing to be ordinary people but they don’t have the ability to lift their social status. Therefore they revolt with blasphemous jokes and distinctive lifestyle. They look down upon the civilians from the bottom of their hearts according to the idea of strata ,which is learned from their former life experience. So as I put it ,they are just hooligans who think highly of themselves and favor the leveled society, which has passed away.

A: Well, I agree that the former life experience have great influence on them. But you always look at them with your prejudice. As critics we need to come closer to understand these characters. Yeah, just as you’ve said ,they go through their juvenile time in military compounds in the Cultural Revolution. At that time , they were told that “you are the successor of socialism, the master of the nation in future”. But suddenly everything changed . With the new social orders formed by the reform, they became nobody and have to enter a present where they are completely lost, recasting themselves in a new and unknown mold. They have to unlearn what they were taught throughout their youth, reinventing their own moral principles and narratives. It is so natural for them to have nostalgia for the life in the past and feel uncomfortable, frustrated ,and even deeply resented to the present. In my view, they are just poor people who linger about the border of the past and the present and they take advantage of hooliganism to express their discontent and to conceal their sorrow. It is through those paradoxical scenarios that Wang Shuo reveals the depth of individual disillusionment and alienation. And that ‘s why I think Wang Shuo’s works have social significance and literature depth.
--[[User:Yuki|Yuki]] ([[User talk:Yuki|talk]]) 09:39, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Wang Shou’s work in films

Compared with his achievement in literature, Wang Shuo has already attracted more attention in film and television industry. For example, the film 《Dream Factory》, which makes Feng Xiaogang become famous, was adapted from Wang Shuo’s novel 《You are not a layman》.
So, why Feng Xiaogang decided to edit Wang Shou’s work into a movie? Actually, both of them are willing to reflect the life in big cities of China, especially in here, in Beijing. Their works focus on the conflicts between the trouble shooters and the urban life. They believe it is the dramatic change in big cities that makes the trouble shooters (or the playing masters) different from real hooligans or vagabonds. And Feng Xiaogang also thinks that Wang Shuo has done a really good job on showing the mental world of those trouble shooters.
Well, I have to emphasize that the trouble shooters (or the playing masters) were not equal to the hooligans or vagabonds. Hooligans only do bad things for no reason (or perhaps just to release their pessimistic mood to the others); vagabonds are someone without a work. The trouble shooters are someone with a specialty in playing and trying to do good things, but in a ridiculous way. The trouble shooters in Beijing had been existed for a long time. They do not have stable income, or even don’t have a job. They just idled the days away, by using their playing specialties. In old times, they were called “wan zhu” in Chinese, which means somebody who spend time in doing nothing seriously. Since the beginning of 1990s, big cities in China like Beijing have changed a lot. Due to this, people in Beijing had to change their ways of life in order to adapt to the development of this city. Of course, the playing masters also tried to find another way of living. Some of them set up their own companies. In the film<Dream Factory>, they set up a company to help the others to realize their dreams. And also in the film named <The Trouble Shooters>, they set up a company called “Three ‘T’s” which means “替人排忧，替人解闷，替人受过”. These two companies were ridiculous but these were exactly what the playing masters would do. They look down upon the urban lives while they could not find better solutions. They could only do funny things to express their mockery to the reality.
Why the playing masters choose to be ridiculous? Why they can’t be normal people; be ordinary? Don’t you think they have the ability to find a fixed work and have stable salaries? Wang Shuo and I believe it is their spiritual uncompromising that lead their behaviors. In the past, Beijing was a place where you can do whatever you can to earn yourself a better life. We don’t need to pretend ourselves in order to climb to a higher position. People remained harmony by the spirit of ”局气” which means to be considerate, tolerance and understanding. The film which I acted as Mr. Six showed the lives of people who lived in the remaining of the old Hutongs. Since Beijing had become a modern city, the relationship between people has become more and more distant. This kind of feeling is just like, for example, you and your families as well as your neighbors living in a big house for a long time. One day, somebody came and decorated your house into something you had never thought about. Then they told you, you have to change your selves to living in your new house. Of course, the trouble shooters refused to change, because they think it is their own place, it is their home. They hope to live the life of the past. They don’t want to pretend living happily in a home which was controlled by others. So they use their own way to do the things they can even if it’s just in vain. This is definitely a joke, but somehow, it is also the reality. The reality that one day we might face in the future. Wang Shuo’s work of the trouble shooters makes each of us think about our own life, and also our own future.

Wang Shuo

2016-06-15T14:21:43Z

Yuki:

[ [ Media:WangShuobyYou DuS.pptx ] ]

Wang Shuo’s works have drawn much attention from critics, causing many controversies and debates. As we all know ,there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes. Critics hold different views on Wang Shuo and his hooligan literature. You can see some bones of contentions through the brief debate below.

bones of contentions:

Fight with fake sublimity VS Lost in nihilism

Deep irony VS Blasphemous joke

Civilian consciousness VS Privileged class mentality

Deep sorrow VS shallow happiness

A: I think Wang Shuo’s works especially those called “hooligan literature” are quite special and valuable. Wang Shuo intentionally keeps away from the kind of literature that seems to stand higher than the real life and always try to educate people with their fickle “truth”. He uses a variety of ironic parodies in his works to tear up the mask of fake sublimity, which may contains ideology ,some backward conventions and those self-righteous intellectuals.

B: Sorry to say that I can’t agree with you. Actually The protagonists in Wang Shuo’s works called “palying master” not only try to overturn the fake sublimity but also deny the value of culture, morality and life, which leads to nihilism . Therefore these cynics have no ideal or spiritual pursuit, take nothing serious and just live in void every day.
And another thing I should stress is that those brilliant ironies you appreciate are just blasphemous jokes by which those hooligans show their cleverness so they are not as meaningful and profound as you think.

A:You seem to have much misunderstanding on the “palying master”. Of course they have their own pursuit. As we can see in the works, they try to do something special to change their life and social status ,for example, the three protagonists in palying master form the three-T company to earn money and serve the public . Besides, as civilians, it’s quite brave for them to have the idea of resisting authority. Nihilism and hooliganism are just their means to fight against hypocrisy and ideology oppression.

B:Civilians? For my part, they have nothing to do with this word. Wang Shuo and his protagonists all grew up in military compounds in Beijing . Their family background once gave them privileges and superiority complex, which also enables them to go through a carefree juvenile time in the Cultural Revolution. As the finish of the Cultural Revolution, they don’t have the privilege any more ,which makes them feel a strong sense of loss. They are not willing to be ordinary people but they don’t have the ability to lift their social status. Therefore they revolt with blasphemous jokes and distinctive lifestyle. They look down upon the civilians from the bottom of their hearts according to the idea of strata ,which is learned from their former life experience. So as I put it ,they are just hooligans who think highly of themselves and favor the leveled society, which has passed away.

A: Well, I agree that the former life experience have great influence on them. But you always look at them with your prejudice. As critics we need to come closer to understand these characters. Yeah, just as you’ve said ,they go through their juvenile time in military compounds in the Cultural Revolution. At that time , they were told that “you are the successor of socialism, the master of the nation in future”. But suddenly everything changed . With the new social orders formed by the reform, they became nobody and have to enter a present where they are completely lost, recasting themselves in a new and unknown mold. They have to unlearn what they were taught throughout their youth, reinventing their own moral principles and narratives. It is so natural for them to have nostalgia for the life in the past and feel uncomfortable, frustrated ,and even deeply resented to the present. In my view, they are just poor people who linger about the border of the past and the present and they take advantage of hooliganism to express their discontent and to conceal their sorrow. It is through those paradoxical scenarios that Wang Shuo reveals the depth of individual disillusionment and alienation. And that ‘s why I think Wang Shuo’s works have social significance and literature depth.
--[[User:Yuki|Yuki]] ([[User talk:Yuki|talk]]) 09:39, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Wang Shou’s work in films

Compared with his achievement in literature, Wang Shuo has already attracted more attention in film and television industry. For example, the film 《Dream Factory》, which makes Feng Xiaogang become famous, was adapted from Wang Shuo’s novel 《You are not a layman》.
So, why Feng Xiaogang decided to edit Wang Shou’s work into a movie? Actually, both of them are willing to reflect the life in big cities of China, especially in here, in Beijing. Their works focus on the conflicts between the trouble shooters and the urban life. They believe it is the dramatic change in big cities that makes the trouble shooters (or the playing masters) different from real hooligans or vagabonds. And Feng Xiaogang also thinks that Wang Shuo has done a really good job on showing the mental world of those trouble shooters.
Well, I have to emphasize that the trouble shooters (or the playing masters) were not equal to the hooligans or vagabonds. Hooligans only do bad things for no reason (or perhaps just to release their pessimistic mood to the others); vagabonds are someone without a work. The trouble shooters are someone with a specialty in playing and trying to do good things, but in a ridiculous way. The trouble shooters in Beijing had been existed for a long time. They do not have stable income, or even don’t have a job. They just idled the days away, by using their playing specialties. In old times, they were called “wan zhu” in Chinese, which means somebody who spend time in doing nothing seriously. Since the beginning of 1990s, big cities in China like Beijing have changed a lot. Due to this, people in Beijing had to change their ways of life in order to adapt to the development of this city. Of course, the playing masters also tried to find another way of living. Some of them set up their own companies. In the film<Dream Factory>, they set up a company to help the others to realize their dreams. And also in the film named <The Trouble Shooters>, they set up a company called “Three ‘T’s” which means “替人排忧，替人解闷，替人受过”. These two companies were ridiculous but these were exactly what the playing masters would do. They look down upon the urban lives while they could not find better solutions. They could only do funny things to express their mockery to the reality.
Why the playing masters choose to be ridiculous? Why they can’t be normal people; be ordinary? Don’t you think they have the ability to find a fixed work and have stable salaries? Wang Shuo and I believe it is their spiritual uncompromising that lead their behaviors. In the past, Beijing was a place where you can do whatever you can to earn yourself a better life. We don’t need to pretend ourselves in order to climb to a higher position. People remained harmony by the spirit of ”局气” which means to be considerate, tolerance and understanding. The film which I acted as Mr. Six showed the lives of people who lived in the remaining of the old Hutongs. Since Beijing had become a modern city, the relationship between people has become more and more distant. This kind of feeling is just like, for example, you and your families as well as your neighbors living in a big house for a long time. One day, somebody came and decorated your house into something you had never thought about. Then they told you, you have to change your selves to living in your new house. Of course, the trouble shooters refused to change, because they think it is their own place, it is their home. They hope to live the life of the past. They don’t want to pretend living happily in a home which was controlled by others. So they use their own way to do the things they can even if it’s just in vain. This is definitely a joke, but somehow, it is also the reality. The reality that one day we might face in the future. Wang Shuo’s work of the trouble shooters makes each of us think about our own life, and also our own future.

Wang Shuo

2016-06-15T14:20:51Z

Yuki:

[ [ Media:Wang_Shuo_by_You Du_S.pptx ] ]

Wang Shuo’s works have drawn much attention from critics, causing many controversies and debates. As we all know ,there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes. Critics hold different views on Wang Shuo and his hooligan literature. You can see some bones of contentions through the brief debate below.

bones of contentions:

Fight with fake sublimity VS Lost in nihilism

Deep irony VS Blasphemous joke

Civilian consciousness VS Privileged class mentality

Deep sorrow VS shallow happiness

A: I think Wang Shuo’s works especially those called “hooligan literature” are quite special and valuable. Wang Shuo intentionally keeps away from the kind of literature that seems to stand higher than the real life and always try to educate people with their fickle “truth”. He uses a variety of ironic parodies in his works to tear up the mask of fake sublimity, which may contains ideology ,some backward conventions and those self-righteous intellectuals.

B: Sorry to say that I can’t agree with you. Actually The protagonists in Wang Shuo’s works called “palying master” not only try to overturn the fake sublimity but also deny the value of culture, morality and life, which leads to nihilism . Therefore these cynics have no ideal or spiritual pursuit, take nothing serious and just live in void every day.
And another thing I should stress is that those brilliant ironies you appreciate are just blasphemous jokes by which those hooligans show their cleverness so they are not as meaningful and profound as you think.

A:You seem to have much misunderstanding on the “palying master”. Of course they have their own pursuit. As we can see in the works, they try to do something special to change their life and social status ,for example, the three protagonists in palying master form the three-T company to earn money and serve the public . Besides, as civilians, it’s quite brave for them to have the idea of resisting authority. Nihilism and hooliganism are just their means to fight against hypocrisy and ideology oppression.

B:Civilians? For my part, they have nothing to do with this word. Wang Shuo and his protagonists all grew up in military compounds in Beijing . Their family background once gave them privileges and superiority complex, which also enables them to go through a carefree juvenile time in the Cultural Revolution. As the finish of the Cultural Revolution, they don’t have the privilege any more ,which makes them feel a strong sense of loss. They are not willing to be ordinary people but they don’t have the ability to lift their social status. Therefore they revolt with blasphemous jokes and distinctive lifestyle. They look down upon the civilians from the bottom of their hearts according to the idea of strata ,which is learned from their former life experience. So as I put it ,they are just hooligans who think highly of themselves and favor the leveled society, which has passed away.

A: Well, I agree that the former life experience have great influence on them. But you always look at them with your prejudice. As critics we need to come closer to understand these characters. Yeah, just as you’ve said ,they go through their juvenile time in military compounds in the Cultural Revolution. At that time , they were told that “you are the successor of socialism, the master of the nation in future”. But suddenly everything changed . With the new social orders formed by the reform, they became nobody and have to enter a present where they are completely lost, recasting themselves in a new and unknown mold. They have to unlearn what they were taught throughout their youth, reinventing their own moral principles and narratives. It is so natural for them to have nostalgia for the life in the past and feel uncomfortable, frustrated ,and even deeply resented to the present. In my view, they are just poor people who linger about the border of the past and the present and they take advantage of hooliganism to express their discontent and to conceal their sorrow. It is through those paradoxical scenarios that Wang Shuo reveals the depth of individual disillusionment and alienation. And that ‘s why I think Wang Shuo’s works have social significance and literature depth.
--[[User:Yuki|Yuki]] ([[User talk:Yuki|talk]]) 09:39, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Wang Shou’s work in films

Compared with his achievement in literature, Wang Shuo has already attracted more attention in film and television industry. For example, the film 《Dream Factory》, which makes Feng Xiaogang become famous, was adapted from Wang Shuo’s novel 《You are not a layman》.
So, why Feng Xiaogang decided to edit Wang Shou’s work into a movie? Actually, both of them are willing to reflect the life in big cities of China, especially in here, in Beijing. Their works focus on the conflicts between the trouble shooters and the urban life. They believe it is the dramatic change in big cities that makes the trouble shooters (or the playing masters) different from real hooligans or vagabonds. And Feng Xiaogang also thinks that Wang Shuo has done a really good job on showing the mental world of those trouble shooters.
Well, I have to emphasize that the trouble shooters (or the playing masters) were not equal to the hooligans or vagabonds. Hooligans only do bad things for no reason (or perhaps just to release their pessimistic mood to the others); vagabonds are someone without a work. The trouble shooters are someone with a specialty in playing and trying to do good things, but in a ridiculous way. The trouble shooters in Beijing had been existed for a long time. They do not have stable income, or even don’t have a job. They just idled the days away, by using their playing specialties. In old times, they were called “wan zhu” in Chinese, which means somebody who spend time in doing nothing seriously. Since the beginning of 1990s, big cities in China like Beijing have changed a lot. Due to this, people in Beijing had to change their ways of life in order to adapt to the development of this city. Of course, the playing masters also tried to find another way of living. Some of them set up their own companies. In the film<Dream Factory>, they set up a company to help the others to realize their dreams. And also in the film named <The Trouble Shooters>, they set up a company called “Three ‘T’s” which means “替人排忧，替人解闷，替人受过”. These two companies were ridiculous but these were exactly what the playing masters would do. They look down upon the urban lives while they could not find better solutions. They could only do funny things to express their mockery to the reality.
Why the playing masters choose to be ridiculous? Why they can’t be normal people; be ordinary? Don’t you think they have the ability to find a fixed work and have stable salaries? Wang Shuo and I believe it is their spiritual uncompromising that lead their behaviors. In the past, Beijing was a place where you can do whatever you can to earn yourself a better life. We don’t need to pretend ourselves in order to climb to a higher position. People remained harmony by the spirit of ”局气” which means to be considerate, tolerance and understanding. The film which I acted as Mr. Six showed the lives of people who lived in the remaining of the old Hutongs. Since Beijing had become a modern city, the relationship between people has become more and more distant. This kind of feeling is just like, for example, you and your families as well as your neighbors living in a big house for a long time. One day, somebody came and decorated your house into something you had never thought about. Then they told you, you have to change your selves to living in your new house. Of course, the trouble shooters refused to change, because they think it is their own place, it is their home. They hope to live the life of the past. They don’t want to pretend living happily in a home which was controlled by others. So they use their own way to do the things they can even if it’s just in vain. This is definitely a joke, but somehow, it is also the reality. The reality that one day we might face in the future. Wang Shuo’s work of the trouble shooters makes each of us think about our own life, and also our own future.

Yan Geling

2016-06-13T16:12:17Z

Yuki: /* Representives Works */

[[File:Yan_Geling_2014.jpg|thumb|left|严歌苓在2014年法兰克福书展上]]
Yan Geling is a famous comtemporary Chinese women writer.She is a Chinese-American.In America,she is a well-known Hollywood script writer.She is a member of the Hollywood Writer's Guild of America and the Writer's Association of China.She has recieved many awads. Much of her work has been adapted for film.
== Biography ==
*In 1958,Yan was born in Shanghai, China.Soon after, her parents divorced.
*In 1970,when she is 12 years old,she became as a ballet dancer and served in the People's Liberation Army during the Cultural Revolution in Tibet.
*In 1979,as a journalist,she took part in the Sino-Vietnamese War,achieving a rank equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel.
*In 1990,Yan went to America to study.Finally,she held a Master's in Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago.
*In 1992,She got married with Laurance,who is a diplomat in Amarica.
== Representives Works ==
[[File:Flowers_in_War.jpg|thumb|金陵十三钗一书封面]]
[[File:Little_Aunt_Crane.jpg|thumb|小姨多鹤一书封面]]
*'''The Flowers of War (Chinese title Jinling shisan chai 《金陵十三钗》)'''
**''Main Story:''In 1937,China during the Nanking Massacre.To escap from the war, a groop of femal undergratuated students,6 badly wounded soilders and 13 hookers found a shelter in church.However, Japenese army finally found this place and all people would be killed. At this moment,Yumo and her sieters disguised as students to sacrifice their leaves to save others.In the end, only Yumo survived.
**''Main Characters:''
***Zhao Yumo 赵玉墨(The leader of 13 hookers.She is a beautyful and brave women.She can speak fluent English.)
***Meng Shujuan 孟淑娟(One of the undergratuated students hiding in the church.She is the main narrator in the book)
***Dou kou 豆蔻(One of 13 hookers.She is good at play the Pipa(琵琶））
***Hong Ling 红菱（Another little hooker)

*'''Little Aunt Crane (Chinese title Xiaoyi Duohe 《小姨多鶴》)'''
*'''An Epic of A Woman (Chinese title Xiaoyi Duohe 《一个女人的史诗》)'''
*'''The Ninth Widow (Chinese title Xiaoyi Duohe 《第九个寡妇》)'''

== The same name films ==
*The Flowers of War
The same name film directed by Zhang Yimou(张艺谋）in 2011.
[[File:The_same_name_film_flowers_of_the_war.jpg|left|金陵十三钗电影海报]]

* Siao Yu
The same name film directed by An Lee(李安）in 1995.
[[File:Xiaoyu.jpg|thumb|left|《少女小渔》剧照]]

== Love Stoty with her husband ==

== Information Links ==
*Yan Geling' Weibo:[http://weibo.com/yangeling?refer_flag=1001030101_&is_hot=1|Yan Geling' Weibo]
*Yan Geling' Blog:[http://blog.sina.com.cn/yangeling|Yan Geling' Blog]

Modern Chinese Literature

2016-06-13T16:02:32Z

Yuki: /* Master narrators Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Jia Pingwa, Wang Shuo */

= Emergence of modern Chinese literature =

= Historical and cultural background late Qing =
* Genre development in China, scholars as authors, Mandarin & Butterfly School
* Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone, also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber, 1791, transl. David Hawkes, John Minford

= Encounter with the West, Westernization =
* [[Wu Jianren]]--[[User:Sunflowertide|Sunflowertide]] ([[User talk:Sunflowertide|talk]]) 10:49, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
** New Story of the Stone, utopian novel
* Liang Qichao, Accounts of the future of new China, utopian fragment
* Secondary Literature:
** Wang, David Derwei. Fin-de-siecle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997.
** Wang, David Derwei. “Translating Modernity.” Pollard, David E., ed. Translation and Creation: Readings of Western Literature in Early Modern China, 1840–1918. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1998. 303-330.
** Wang Dun (王敦). “The Late Qing’s Other Utopias: China’s Science-Fictional Imagination, 1900-1910”, in: Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 34.2, September 2008: 37-61
** John Fitzgerald, The Unfinished History of China's Future, in: Thesis Eleven 1999 57:17, here pp. 21-23, http://the.sagepub.com/content/57/1/17

= May Fourth iconoclasm - Historical and cultural background May Fourth =
* Liang Qichao, Foreword to the Publication of Political Novels in Translation, Denton 71-73
* Hu Shi, Some modest proposals for the Reform of Literature, D1996:123-139

= The role of translations and translators =
* Yan Fu
* Lin Shu
* the earliest translations [unpublished ppt presentation_woesler.pptx, paper: woesler_early_translations_of_german_literature_into_chinese_final.doc, paper]
* the selection process and intention of translations

= Discovery of the alienated Self – World Literature =
* McDougall and Louie, 1-185; focus on pages 1-30
* [[Lu Xun (1881-1936)]] Beween activism and self-doubt - the development of Lu Xun [[User:Maranda|Maranda]] 21:14, 11 September 2012 (UTC) and 21:45, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
** Lu Xun: Preface to the first collection of Short Stories "Call to arms" 1922 (LG:3-7), A Madman's Diary 1918 (LG:8-16), Kong Yiji 1919 (LG:17-21)
** Further information: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/courses/c503/mad.htm, http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/courses/c503/kong.htm
** "Hometown" http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/luxun-calltoarms.html#Home [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]

= Living to see the Western literary epochs in Chinese time lapse. The Literary societies and May Fourth Romanticism =
* Required reading: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/publications/research/soc.htm
* Further reading:
**Literary Societies of Republican China. Edited by KIRK A. DENTON and MICHEL HOCKX. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2008. ix, 591 pp.
**Critical Studies:In the Party Spirit: Socialist Realism and Literary Practice in the Soviet Union, East Germany and China,Edited by H.Chung with M.Falchikov,B.S.McDougall and K.McPherson
* Literary Research Society
**[[Zhou Zuoren]],[[Zheng Zhenduo]],[[Shen Yanbing]]--[[User:Sunshine|Sunshine]] ([[User talk:Sunshine|talk]]) 15:46, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
* Crescent Moon Society
**Xu Zhimo's poems 1925-1930 [499-501]
* Creation Society
** [[Yu Dafu]], "Sinking" 1921 [31-55]
** [[Guo Moruo (1892 -1978)]] [[User:DavidSmith|DavidSmith]] 21:40, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
*** Guo Moruo: “The hound of heaven” 1920
*** http://global.britannica.com/biography/Guo-Moruo--[[User:Sunshine|Sunshine]] ([[User talk:Sunshine|talk]]) 15:46, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

= Literature of the 1930s =
*[[Qian Zhongshu (1910 – 1998)]] [[User:Ericaangie]] 13:19, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
** Self-selected excerpts from Qian Zhongshu, [[Fortress besieged]] --[[User:Sunflowertide|Sunflowertide]] ([[User talk:Sunflowertide|talk]]) 10:36, 1 June 2016 (UTC) 1947

= Women writers =
* Literature of the Megacities - The inner life of Shanghainese women writers with a focus on Zhang Ailing
* [[Zhang Ailing]] -- 2012 Corinneb 13:21, 8 October 2012 (UTC) [[User:Mark]] 15:15, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
* [[Ling Shuhua (1900-1990)]] [[User:Mattstrock|Mattstrock]] 21:22, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
* Ling Shuhua, "The Night of Mid-Autumn Festival" [95-102];
*[[ Xiao Hong (1911-1942)]] [[User:PhilipHarding|PhilipHarding]] 03:04, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
* Xiao Hong, "Hands" [161-73]; "On the Oxcart" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]
* [[Zhang Jie (born 1937)]][[User:Ericaangie|Ericaangie]] 18:18, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

= The fall: Authors yoke their literature for a deceiving ideology. Lu Xun’s proud ox bows his head not only for children, but now also for party action =
* Lu Xun’s ambiguous attitude towards taking physical action, towards the impact of literature on society and towards serving an ideology with literature.
* Mao's claim of Lu Xun

= The socialist era, Yan'an Literature and Rectification =
* Mao Zedong, Poems, Talks in Yan'an: Literature and Art for the Masses and the Use of Traditional Forms, 1938, D1996:433-435
* Ding Ling, "When I Was in Hsia Village" [132-46]
* Mao Dun and "Spring Silkworms" [56-73]

= Authors in transition: From Revolutionary Romanticism to Reform Literature =
* [[Wang Meng]] by Maranda 21:45, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
* Wang Meng, Long Live [the] Youth!
* Wang Meng, Hard Porridge, trans. by Chen Zishan
* [[Ba Jin]] [[User:PhilipHarding|PhilipHarding]] 21:43, 4 December 2012 (UTC): Family and the self-censorship in the later edition

= On different paths: Bing Xin, Zhang Jie =
* [[Bing Xin]]
* Zhang Jie: Heavy Wings
* [[Zhang Jie: Kid From The Forest]]

= Chinese Modernism and the Aesthetic =
* McDougall and Louie, 189-321; focus on pages 189-207
* Shi Zhicun, "One Evening in the Rainy Season" [115-24]
* Regional literature
* Shen Congwen, "Xiaoxiao" [82-94]
* "Meijin, Baozi, and the White Kid" [in China: A Traveler's Liteary Companion]

= Post-Revolutionary Literature; Cultural Revolution =
* "Red Detachment of Women" [Film Viewing]

= Post-Mao Literature, Scars and realism, Roots literature =
* McDougall and Louie, 325-448; focus on pages 325-44
* Liu Heng, "Dogshit Food" [366-78]; scars literature
* Yan Lianke, "Black Bristle, White Bristles" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]
* [[The Scar Literature After "the Cultural Revolution"]]
** Lu Xinhua, Scar

= Master narrators Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Jia Pingwa, Wang Shuo =
* [[Mo Yan]] 莫言 by Corinne B.
: His story: "Old Gun" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion], novel 生死疲勞 "Life and Death are Wearing me out"
* [[Yu Hua]], "Brothers" by David 06:48, 5 December 2012 (UTC) by Jackie(BNU)2016
* [[Jia Pingwa]]
* [[Wang Shuo]]

= Contemporary Women authors =
* [[Bi Shumin]](毕淑敏), 女儿拳 Women’s boxing, 女心理师 The female psychologist
* [[Yan Geling]](严歌苓），The Flowers of War 金陵十三钗，Little Aunt Crane 小姨多鹤， The Lost Daughter of Happiness 扶桑

= Avant-garde literature and post-socialist present =
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* [[Avant-garde literature]]
* [[post-socialist present]]
* [[Su Tong]], "[[Escape]]" [445-54];[[Link title]]
* Yu Hua, "[[On the Road at Eighteen]]" [439-44]
** modern Chinese literary life, such as publishing in journals and newspaper supplements, working within literary societies or associations, and dealing with censorship
* Gu Cheng, Mang Ke, Bei Dao: Poets of the Obscure School since the 1980s
[[Media:Avant-garde literature and post-socialist present.ogg]]

= Taiwan literature =
* Zhang Dachun, "Lucky Worries About His Country" (403-416)
* Zhu Tianwen, "Fin de Siècle Splendor" [388-402]

= Longing for something literature I: Historicizing, II: Tibet Exotism =
* [[Historicizing]]
* [[Yu Dan]] 于丹, 《论语》心得 Confucius in your heart, [[Yi Zhongtian]] (易中天)
* [[Alai]]

= Megacity Literature II - Peking and Vagabound Literature =
* Xu Zechen (徐则臣), 跑步穿过中关村 Peking double quick
* Liu Zhenyun (刘震云), 我叫刘跃 The pickpockets

= Between cult and celebrity =
* Cult author Guo Jingming
** Book series "Bestseller"
** [[Guo Jingming]] (郭敬明), 悲伤逆流成河 [[Cry me a sad river]]
* Cult author Mian Mian
** Mian Mian (棉棉), 声名狼籍 Panda Sex

= Critical surrealist Han Han, young authors =
* [[Han Han]] by Matt S.
:Triple door
:His Land

* Web literature portal qidian.com
= THE OUTLINE OF WEB LITERATURE =

File:Wang Shuo and hooligam literature.docx

2016-06-13T16:00:08Z

Yuki: The PPT provides the introduction and interpretation on Wang Shuo's works called hooligam literature.

The PPT provides the introduction and interpretation on Wang Shuo's works called hooligam literature.

Wang Shuo

2016-06-04T09:39:10Z

Yuki:

Wang Shuo’s works have drawn much attention from critics, causing many controversies and debates. As we all know ,there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes. Critics hold different views on Wang Shuo and his hooligan literature. You can see some bones of contentions through the brief debate below.

bones of contentions:

Fight with fake sublimity VS Lost in nihilism

Deep irony VS Blasphemous joke

Civilian consciousness VS Privileged class mentality

Deep sorrow VS shallow happiness

A: I think Wang Shuo’s works especially those called “hooligan literature” are quite special and valuable. Wang Shuo intentionally keeps away from the kind of literature that seems to stand higher than the real life and always try to educate people with their fickle “truth”. He uses a variety of ironic parodies in his works to tear up the mask of fake sublimity, which may contains ideology ,some backward conventions and those self-righteous intellectuals.

B: Sorry to say that I can’t agree with you. Actually The protagonists in Wang Shuo’s works called “palying master” not only try to overturn the fake sublimity but also deny the value of culture, morality and life, which leads to nihilism . Therefore these cynics have no ideal or spiritual pursuit, take nothing serious and just live in void every day.
And another thing I should stress is that those brilliant ironies you appreciate are just blasphemous jokes by which those hooligans show their cleverness so they are not as meaningful and profound as you think.

A:You seem to have much misunderstanding on the “palying master”. Of course they have their own pursuit. As we can see in the works, they try to do something special to change their life and social status ,for example, the three protagonists in palying master form the three-T company to earn money and serve the public . Besides, as civilians, it’s quite brave for them to have the idea of resisting authority. Nihilism and hooliganism are just their means to fight against hypocrisy and ideology oppression.

B:Civilians? For my part, they have nothing to do with this word. Wang Shuo and his protagonists all grew up in military compounds in Beijing . Their family background once gave them privileges and superiority complex, which also enables them to go through a carefree juvenile time in the Cultural Revolution. As the finish of the Cultural Revolution, they don’t have the privilege any more ,which makes them feel a strong sense of loss. They are not willing to be ordinary people but they don’t have the ability to lift their social status. Therefore they revolt with blasphemous jokes and distinctive lifestyle. They look down upon the civilians from the bottom of their hearts according to the idea of strata ,which is learned from their former life experience. So as I put it ,they are just hooligans who think highly of themselves and favor the leveled society, which has passed away.

A: Well, I agree that the former life experience have great influence on them. But you always look at them with your prejudice. As critics we need to come closer to understand these characters. Yeah, just as you’ve said ,they go through their juvenile time in military compounds in the Cultural Revolution. At that time , they were told that “you are the successor of socialism, the master of the nation in future”. But suddenly everything changed . With the new social orders formed by the reform, they became nobody and have to enter a present where they are completely lost, recasting themselves in a new and unknown mold. They have to unlearn what they were taught throughout their youth, reinventing their own moral principles and narratives. It is so natural for them to have nostalgia for the life in the past and feel uncomfortable, frustrated ,and even deeply resented to the present. In my view, they are just poor people who linger about the border of the past and the present and they take advantage of hooliganism to express their discontent and to conceal their sorrow. It is through those paradoxical scenarios that Wang Shuo reveals the depth of individual disillusionment and alienation. And that ‘s why I think Wang Shuo’s works have social significance and literature depth.
--[[User:Yuki|Yuki]] ([[User talk:Yuki|talk]]) 09:39, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Wang Shuo

2016-06-04T09:37:15Z

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