Modernity,Anti-Modernity,and the Monetary Image in Shen Congwen’s The Bordering Town

doi:10.13438/j.cnki.jdxb.2014.05.015

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Abstract: Money,stories about money,and business activities related to money are intentionally and repeatedly described in Shen Congwen’s The Bordering Town,which shows Shen’s reflection on modernity from money perspective and makes money the core theme of the novel.Shen realized that capital had damaged the poetic relevance between man and man,man and nature,and man and land,leading to the spatial homogenization of man,nature,and the charming world.Purposefully restoring money from an abstract material of equivalent exchange to a symbolic gift,and describing the heterogeneous space brought by capital,Shen Congwen showed his criticism to modernity based on capital.

Key words: money, The Bordering Town, modernity, anti-modernity；SHEN Congwen

CHEN Xue, LIU Tai-Ran. Modernity,Anti-Modernity,and the Monetary Image in Shen Congwen’s The Bordering Town[J]. Journal of Jishou University（Social Sciences）, 2014, 35(5): 101-106.

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