Shi Tiesheng was a famous contemporary writer in China and had significant influence on literary circles. He accomplished a lot of workers in his lifetime and " Notes on Principles " was one of his important workers. Comparing with traditional narrative novels, " Notes on Principles " has distinctive features in narration, and makes breakthroughs and developments in narrative discourse, narrative structure, and narrative language. Shi Tiesheng accomplished so many influential novels, contributing a lot to Chinese literary circles. " Notes on Principles " was the most important representative of Shi Tiesheng. It's the first full-length novel that was finished on wheel chair after the writer had been physically handicapped and was published on the magazine "Harvest" in 1996. " Notes on Principles " elaborates influences of social changes from 1950's on different crowds, mainly including poets, disabled people, doctors, women teachers, painters and female directors. In the novel, there is not only thinking about life and death, but also understanding of vacancy. It can be said that this novel is sort of the writer's biography, through a series of narrations, shearing his life experiences and feelings with the public. The novel has distinctive feature and method in writing, especially in narrative style, and it is different with narrative style of traditional novels in the following aspects.
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