Fission in Watching

Jia Pingwa's full-length novels are written with a pattern. On the one hand, he keeps a close eye on the major cultural conflicts in the process of social change and keeps thinking about the hot spots of social life in the midst of changes, maintaining a sober spirit of modern criticism of reality. On the other hand, he actively immerses himself in traditional Chinese culture, from cultural philosophy to folklore and religion, from the metaphysical to the physical. He conscientiously studied and practiced Western modernist literary and artistic creation techniques, and consciously studied and absorbed the essence of traditional Chinese novels and modern vernacular novels, forming the distinctive characteristics of his nationalized novel artistic style. This book presents a personalized and in-depth interpretation of Jia Pingwa's fifteen published full-length novels, discusses the writer's overall creation pattern before and after his transformation, and demonstrates the specific process and characteristics of the writer's creative ideological conflict and fission. The author attempts to sort out the inheritance and innovation between Jia Pingwa and classical and modern Chinese literature and points out the limitations of his creation.