The Construction of Color Aesthetics at the Threshold of Cross-Sensory Narrative – Study of Color Depiction in Eileen Chang’s Literary Creation

The School of Humanities, Taizhou University, Taizhou, Jiangsu, 225300, China

^* Corresponding author: piaoy@ldy.edu.rs

Abstract

Eileen Chang is a strange woman in the history of modern literature, and her works are complete with a peculiar sense of color. Since the 1980s, the study of Eileen Chang’s literature in mainland China has matured, but the aesthetics of color in her literary works has rarely been explored. This paper explores the background of Eileen Chang’s color aesthetics, the narrative function of color, and the long-lasting artistic value from an aesthetic point of view, using color as a link between literature, history, visual representation, and modern expression, and attempts to activate the contemporary vitality of the classic texts in a new dimension. Through the research, this paper takes the unique color aesthetics of Eileen Chang’s novels as the starting point, deeply explores the color writing style of her novels and the reasons for its formation, analyses how the color aesthetics of her novels are constructed on this basis, and then explores the multiple values of her works and their far-reaching influence on the future generations.