Analysis of Social Change and Narrative Techniques of Chinese literature in Thai version “To Live” by Yu Huo.

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to 1) examine the changes and consequences of social change in modern Chinese history since The Second Sino – Japanese War to the reform in Deng’s government and 2) analyze the narrative techniques of the author in the Thai version of “To Live” by Yu Huo.  This study was a qualitative research, using documents, books, online articles and related research as a research tools to analyze the events, characters and the scenes.

          The study revealed that the literature “To Live” by Yu Huo presented life story of the character “Fu Gui. The storylines, characters and scenes reflected the images of China’s society in the midst of the social change.  In addition, the story events used the first - person narrative strategies, the action strategies of the story reversed between past and present, and the close - story strategies of the story left the comment about the realities of life to the readers. The character strategies used indirect narration through the eyes and thoughts of the characters.In addition, the scene strategies used the fictional scenes more than the real scenes.  The strategies used by the author created realism and intense emotions, therefore this literature had become 1 in the 10 of China’s most influential novels in the 1990s.