An obvious characteristics in
ZHANG Pings novels is their strong concern on reality, their life like vividness, and their close-up record of the reality. His "Fenxi Legal Case" , "Sky Net" , "Misery of the Orphan" , "Choice" , "Ambush", "Girl Facing Me" are all adoptions from real life with great amount of raw materials from life as their basis. However, his novels are different from ordinary "social problem novels", as they are not limited to raising of the questions, but are actively taking part in reality, especially in praising positive forces of the society, therefore, full of enthusiasm and the idealism. ZHANG Pings novels are a representation of a
literature tradition in speaking and cheering for the people. This has been an excellent long tradition in Chinese literature history, such as in Confucius "literature reflects life", in the realistic tradition started from "The Book of Songs", in QU Yuans "Mourning on Peoples Hardship", in DU Fus "Three Officials, Thrice Farewells", in BAI Ju-yis "No Poem without Peoples complaint", in LU Xuns "Willingness for the Service of the people", in ZHAO Shu-lis whole-hearted writing for the people, and in MAO Ze-dongs "Art for the sake of workers peasants and soldiers" and other similar policies by the CPP. ZHANG Pings works are the inheritance and promotion of this tradition. Its appearance and success is doubtlessly a forceful criticizing and rectification against the privatization trend away from public life. Traditionally the
prolocutor novels used to be in a wrong
direction with philistinism political slogans, formula and concepts. But ZHANG Ping did not follow suite. There has been some new change in his
Novels, such as taking in more sense of ego and independence, combining fairly well the record of reality with active ideals, producing strong artistic attraction. ZHANG Pings works not only provides an important revelation in direction and comparison for the literature world, but also a valuable revelation in
value and in comparison.
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