A Tentative Discussion of the Relation between Individualism and the "Contemperary Literature"
Before the 1980s,individualism had long been pressed,disgraded and cleared out in the contemperary Chinese society and literature,which resulted in the generalized status que of the contemperary literature.The fact that the main stream discourse,which put forward collectivism,showed their anxiety for individualism discourse proved that individualism,as a kind of thought,visibly or invisibly,existed.Individualism suffered serious criticism in the public literature,which brought about its fate of activating its life underground.The underground literature was characterized by its protruding individulism thought,which enabled itself to be entitled to reach a height that could represent the creation and thought of the people of that time.It was individualism thought that made these works own a relatively high place and value in the history of literature and thought.
This paper explores the effects of a major life transition or period of liminality on bridal ::: consumer behaviour and her associated consumption. The findings of a qualitative study ::: expose evidence of two distinct consumption patterns those of symbolic consumption and ::: self-gift giving.