Running Away from Parents'Hometown： Space Experience & Female Subject Construction of An Qi's Poetry

This article intends to take the poems of An Qi, a contemporary Chinese female poet, as an example to discuss the situation of women and the mood of migrating to the North while she moved from Zhangzhou, Fujian to Beijing. An Qi, whose real name is Huang Jiangbing, was born in 1969, from Zhangzhou, Fujian. She originally worked in Zhangzhou Cultural Bureau and moved from Zhangzhou to Beijing in 2002. Then she settled in Beijing and specialized in writing. An Qi claimed that there was an inherent poetry driving force pushed her from Zhangzhou to Beijing. Because she was not satisfied with her own achievements, she abandoned everything and developed in Beijing. The early style of An Qi's poems is soft and beautiful but it made a major turning point when she left her hometown to Beijing. It prompted her to actively think about the role of women. Therefore, in her later works, she showed concern about the fate and situation of women, and she also has a clear feminine consciousness to reconstruct the feminine subject.An Qi’s three collections of poems just form a flowing history of her life. It represents the records of her moving from Zhangzhou to Beijing, living in Beijing, and go and back from Zhangzhou to Beijing－－ “You can’t imitate my life" is a collection of long poems, chronicling her painful journey away from home and relatives , and abandoned the marriage. "Polar Land" is a collection of short poems that reflects her life in Beijing. There are traces of struggling to make a decision, as well as running for life, which has become the aspiration of the migrating to the North. And "Parents’ Country" records her feelings about her hometown and relatives, which reveals homesickness and the feeling of having to leave. Through these three collections of poems, we can glimpse the changes in the spatial experience and creative consciousness in An Qi's poems, as well as to understand the awakening and development of the creative consciousness of female Chinese writers in the new century, and to foresee a new literary landscape.