摘要
During the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, the importance of collectivism completely overwhelmed the importance of individualism. This is one of the typical features of the totalitarian society, and it could be called ＂Political Quietism＂. Flowers （Fan Hua） is one of the novels in contemporary China which try to explore and response such problems during the totalitarian society （MAO＇s era） and after the totalitarian society （post-totalitarian or after MAO＇s era）.
基金
Acknowledgements： This paper was sponsored by China National Social Science Foundation ＂Research on the Fundamental Problems of the Contemporary Aesthetics and Criticism Patterns＂ （15ZDB023）.
