Images of Young Women in Hong Ke's Novel "Life Tree" and Their Values

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10.2991/icsehr-17.2017.49How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Hong Ke; Life Tree; Young Woman; Life First

Abstract

By analyzing the fates of the four young married women - Ma Yanhong, Xu Lili, Wang Lanlan and Li Aiqin in Hong Ke's novel Life Tree, the paper points out the different paths of their growing from young girls into young married women, and explicates the perception of life that both Hong Ke and the four female characters in the novel have in common, that is, life first and career scecond. In order to convey the theme, Hong Ke sets two spaces - Xinjiang and Shaanxi, and makes a contrast between the two regional cultures through the images of Li Aiqin and Niu Luxi, her husband, and their stories, affirming the maganimity and pragmatism of the frontier culture and criticizing the parochialism and hypocrisy of the inland culture.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Tai Kexiang
AU  - Gao Jianhong
AU  - Wang Hui
PY  - 2017/12
DA  - 2017/12
TI  - Images of Young Women in Hong Ke's Novel "Life Tree" and Their Values
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Social science, Education and Humanities Research (ICSEHR 2017)
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EP  - 198
SN  - 2352-5398
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