Nongmozhongcai, yinyun kengqiang: Zhang Ailing duanpian xiaozhuozhong de zhuangdai xingrongci 浓墨重彩，音韵铿锵: 张爱玲短篇小说中的状态形容词 Heavy Colors and Clanging Rhythms:The State Adjectives in Eileen Chang’s Short Stories

With extraordinary sensitivity, Eileen Chang employs many dazzling state adjective words in her writings, as one of her ways of interpreting this special time. This feature is especially prominent in her short stories. The state adjective words adopted by her are heavy in colors and clanging in rhythms. Classifying and analyzing the state adjective words in Eileen Chang’s short stories will be helpful in understanding the language style and the emotional inclination in her work, experiencing her way of settling down her mind in a desolate and chaotic world. It will also help the readers who are not native Chinese speakers to reach the cultural horizon of the Chinese literary tradition.