The Birth, Growth and Separation of a “Family”: the Narrative Starting with Getting Married and Being Hungry —The Good Earth and Its Narrative Structure
Duan Huaiqing
Department of Chinese Language and Literature,Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
Abstract：The narrative of The Good Earth begins with “getting married” and “hunger”, which obviously implies multiple symbolic meanings. Among the “law of the jungle” derived from “hunger” and the ethical principles or ethical culture generated by family center, there are gaps difficult to bridge, whether in real life or in spiritual life. And the gaps even affect the shaping and modeling of each main character in The Good Earth, which, with a keen insight, makes great room for the narrating of multiple binary relational structures, such as in the contrast of traditional and modern societies, of individual and family, of family and society, of countryside and city, and of China and the world.In this way, The Good Earthfinally shows the readers the epic literary imagination and completes novel narrative of Chinese peasant life and peasant society in the early twentieth century.
段怀清. 一个“家”的诞生、成长及分裂：由“成家”和“饥饿”开始的叙事 ——论《大地》的双线叙事结构[J]. 江苏大学学报（社会科学版）, 2019, 21(4): 1-7.
DUAN Huai-Qing. The Birth, Growth and Separation of a “Family”: the Narrative Starting with Getting Married and Being Hungry —The Good Earth and Its Narrative Structure. Journal of Jiangsu University（Social Science Editi, 2019, 21(4): 1-7.
2019, Vol. 21 
