Language, Emotion, and Rationality: On the Triple Identification with Rural Human Relations in Qiao Ye’s Bao Shui

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10.2991/978-2-38476-511-9_40How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Bao Shui; Dialect Narrative; Homecoming Narrative; Identity

Abstract

Qiao Ye’s novel Bao Shui is set against the backdrop of rural modernization. The narrative centers on the protagonist Di Qingping’s return to her hometown, vividly depicting the intense collision and profound integration between traditional rural values and modern urban perspectives. Through rediscovering and employing the dialect of northern Henan, Di Qingping gradually mends the fractured emotional bond between herself and the countryside. The author skillfully employs a narrative strategy that interweaves memory and reality, delicately tracing the protagonist’s shifting attitude toward rural life: from initial resistance and alienation to the revival of emotional attachment and eventual return, culminating in a rational and profound understanding and acceptance. This gradual process of recognition, advancing through linguistic rootedness, emotional reawakening, and rational identification, facilitates the protagonist’s physical and spiritual return to the rural society of human relations.

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AU  - Congyu Wei
AU  - Shubei Zhong
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/12/31
TI  - Language, Emotion, and Rationality: On the Triple Identification with Rural Human Relations in Qiao Ye’s Bao Shui
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 346
EP  - 354
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-511-9_40
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