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Nostalgia of the Traditional and Reflection on the Modern Times——Analysis of the Cultural Dislocation in Zhang Henshui's Novels

Xue Xizhen

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Zhang Henshui himself is a contradiction of individual.He,on one hand,retains world of traditional culture,on other hand feels perplexed of modern transformation.He has a very accurate grasp of imageof modern material civilization and ambiguity of urban life;abandoning absolute dualism mode of thinking on the old and new,selecting integration of Chinese and Western,the old and new.He finally chooses another category different from modern literature and mainstream culture through reflection of modernity,by continually experiencing cultural dislocation of nostalgia and suspecting.

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Zhang Henshui himself is a contradiction of individual.He,on one hand,retains world of traditional culture,on other hand feels perplexed of modern transformation.He has a very accurate grasp of imageof modern material civilization and ambiguity of urban life;abandoning absolute dualism mode of thinking on the old and new,selecting integration of Chinese and Western,the old and new.He finally chooses another category different from modern literature and mainstream culture through reflection of modernity,by continually experiencing cultural dislocation of nostalgia and suspecting.

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Zhang Henshui himself is a contradiction of individual.He,on one hand,retains world of traditional culture,on other hand feels perplexed of modern transformation.He has a very accurate grasp of imageof modern material civilization and ambiguity of urban life;abandoning absolute dualism mode of thinking on the old and new,selecting integration of Chinese and Western,the old and new.He finally chooses another category different from modern literature and mainstream culture through reflection of modernity,by continually experiencing cultural dislocation of nostalgia and suspecting.

Key concepts: Zhàng, Contradiction, Modernity, Dislocation, Dualism, Mainstream, Aesthetics, Reflection (computer programming)

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