One Hundred Years of the Wang Family――Socialist China from the Perspectives of WangXiaoping, RuZhixuan, and WangAnyi
松村 志乃
『現代中国』 (96号) 2022/10
[Refereed][Invited] This paper considers one hundred years of literature and politics in socialist China from the view of a literary family composed of Wang Xiaoping(1919-2003), Ru Zhijuan(1925-1997), and Wang Anyi(1954-). After the Tiananmen Square Incident(1989), Wang Anyi, a writer of the Intellectual Youth Generation, expressed a mixture of disappointment and respect toward her literary parents who belong to the revolutionary generation. However, when we reconsider the literary works of Wang Xiaoping and Ru Zhijuan, the writers who were the bearers of the “Mao’s literary style” in the founding period of People's Republic of China, we can understand the purity and sincerity of the persons, who tried to live up with the socialist ideals throughout their lives. Wang Anyi has understood the spiritual heritage of the older generation which she once made a break with, and has tried to inherit in her struggles. In her attitude, the sincerity of a writer is also evident.