The Art Piece of Chinese Literature

The Art Piece of Chinese Literature Pa Jin, formerly known as Fu, Li Gan, was from the first generation of Chinese writers of the twentieth century. He was born in Chengdu, a large city in the province of Sichuan. As a youth that was born at a landlord family, he has witnessed the pain that people suffered under the feudalism society. Youths that had passion and dreams were being forced to follow the paths that their parents chose for them; servants that lived as the lower class of the society had no right to choose their life. All of these unfair situations led Pa Chin to a deep anger of the old system. Along with the impact of the "May Fourth Movement", he developed a strong sense of democratic revolutionary. All of his early experiences of life and thoughts had reflected in his later creations of Chinese Literature. His view of democracy got even border after he had studied in many other places. In 1923, he fled away from a feudal family to Shanghai, Nanjing and other places to study. In early 1927, he had exposed to a variety of social thoughts in France. He was attracted to the democratic ideals of French Revolution. He once noted that,” We all are the children of French Revolution”. (“Pa Chin”) He was also influenced by some ideas and behaviors of the Russian revolutionaries. We can see the impacts of these complicated ideological thoughts in his later works. One of the most representative art pieces of Pa Chin was the “Turbulent Stream” trilogy. It included three parts, “Family”, “Spring”, and “Autumn”. The contents of this trilogy mainly focused on the declinations and struggles of a large family, the Kao family. It illustrated clearly the collapse of the feudal patriarchal clan system and the revolutionary trends among younger generations. In this trilogy, the author exposed the evils of feudalism and praised the youths’ awakening. The deep feeling of this theme created a strong infection on anti-feudalism among the youths. The

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