Luwen Wang

From the 1940s to the 1960s, the Haikai writers, represented by Zhang Ailing, emerged and recorded the urban life under the circumstances of the time. This paper analyzes the typical images of urban men and women in the works of Fragrance Scraps - The First Fragrance, Blockade and Jasmine Fragrance Pieces, and shapes the unique image of Zhang Ailing’s style of urban literature through the three perspectives of women, the East and the West, and the upper class city, as well as the assistance of ingenious imagery that penetrates into the heart of the matter.

Zhang Ailing, tragic image, literary creation, urban imagery

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