Constructing the? Aesthetic Judgment Form of Daily Life of the City: On Wang Anyi's Urban Fiction

Since the completion of Time Flows, Wang Anyi has mainly focused her attention upon urban daily life. This is closely associated with her unique conception of history. As far as Wang sees, the history described by a novelist is nothing but a picture of daily life. In her works, Wang unfolds the internal beauty ignored by people in daily life. Simultaneously, Wang succeeds in excavating the complicated essential factors which constitute the urban immigrants' culture and in unearthing the brilliant, lenient features which are derived from the colliding and melting of different cultural elements. Facing the numerous complicated urban daily lives, Wang adopts the rational narration pattern. Having accumulated a wealth of related materials, she deduces and extends the plot of her fiction with the aid of logic to attain the goal of avoiding the defect of rambling in the process of narration. All these are closely related to Wang Anyi's attempts to construct the aesthetic judgment form of daily life.