Disease and Humanity： Ba Jin and His Ward Four： A Wartime Novel of China

作     者：Haili Kong 

作者机构：Department of Modem Languages and Literatures Swarthrnore College Philadelphia 19081-1397 USA 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of Literary Studies in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities》 (中国高等学校学术文摘·文学研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第6卷第2期

页      面：198-207页

学科分类：0501[文学-中国语言文学] 0303[法学-社会学] 0502[文学-外国语言文学] 05[文学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 050106[文学-中国现当代文学] 100205[医学-精神病与精神卫生学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Ba Jin humanity disease family trauma 

摘      要：＂Family＂ as Ba Jin＇s intense concern seems to be a central icon of his literary works, carrying through from his Family （1933） to Cold Nights （1947）. After briefly reassessing Ba Jin＇s literary contribution in his early phase, this essay will focus more on Ba Jin＇s novels written in the 1940s, particularly his Ward Four, which rarely attracts critical attention. For Lu Xun, mental disease in China was more crucial than physical disease. Ba Jin uses both mental and physical diseases to explore humanity in a wartime hospital. Ba Jin＇s early novels were infused with more radical ideas, but as a more mature writer in the 1940s he provided readers with a new perspective to explore and understand society.