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The return of the westward look: Overseas Chinese student literature in the twentieth century.

机译:向西看的回归:20世纪的海外华人学生文学。

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By employing the theory of Imagology, this work examines four literature works written in overseas study movements in modern Chinese history: Wang Tao's short stories in Songyin Manlu, Lao She's The Two Mas, Bai Xianyong's A Death in Chicago and Zhou Li's Manhattan's Chinese Lady. While tracing how Chinese intellectuals work through the dichotomy of China/West and Tradition/Modernity, this study also endeavors to reveal theoretical issues arising from inter-cultural communication and representation. It argues that the literary projection of the west manifests a complex sense of the Chinese self primarily due to the portrayals of western cities and westerners as an embodiment of Chinese understandings of western modernity at different periods. In the Late Qing, the depiction of London in Songyin Manlu only focuses on gunboats, cannons, museums, and factories, because western modernity for the Chinese at the time was signified by the mighty weaponry of British navy and advanced technology. In the 1920s, however, the portrayal of London in The Two Mas shifts to reveal how Londoners' lifestyle and culture make Britain the most powerful nation in the world, as the Chinese intellectuals advocated the westernization of Chinese culture in order to strengthen China. In the 1960s, the Chinese protagonist Wu Hanhun in A Death of Chicago feels estranged and sexually seduced in Chicago, subsequently loses his sense of purpose in life and eventually commits suicide, the depiction of which is consistent with similar themes in western modernist literature. This is due to the fact that the modernist movement thrived in Taiwan in the 1960s, and as such, had a large impact on Taiwanese writers. The 1990s-era Manhattan's Chinese Lady displays spectacles of America's wealth on the Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, as common Chinese strive for becoming rich in contemporary China owing to the Chinese government's promotion of market reform after 40 years of poverty in socialist China. The study concludes that regardless of whether or not the images of the west presented in Chinese discourse are idealizations, demonizations, or other related cultural determinations, they all manifest a type of anxiety in regard to the Chinese Self.
机译:通过运用意象学理论,该作品研究了四幅在近代中国历史上海外研究运动中写作的文学作品:王韬在松音曼露的短篇小说,老舍的《两个男人》,白先勇的《芝加哥之死》和周立的曼哈顿的中国女人。在追踪中国知识分子如何通过中西二分法和传统/现代性二分法进行工作的同时,本研究还力图揭示跨文化交流和代表性所产生的理论问题。它认为,西方的文学投射主要是由于西方城市和西方人对中国在不同时期对西方现代性认识的体现而表现出对中国人自我的复杂理解。在清末,松音曼鲁对伦敦的描写只集中在炮舰,大炮,博物馆和工厂,因为当时中国人的西方现代性被英国海军强大的武器和先进技术所象征。然而,在1920年代,随着《中国志》的转变,揭示了伦敦人的生活方式和文化如何使英国成为世界上最强大的国家,因为中国知识分子提倡中国文化的西化以加强中国。在1960年代,中国主人公吴汉浑在《芝加哥之死》中感到与世隔绝并受到性诱惑,随后失去了人生目标,最终自杀,其描写与西方现代主义文学中的类似主题是一致的。这是由于现代主义运动在1960年代在台湾蓬勃发展,因此对台湾作家产生了巨大影响。 1990年代时代的曼哈顿华裔女士在曼哈顿第五大道上展示着美国财富的景象,由于中国政府在经历了40年的社会主义贫困之后推动了市场改革,因此普通华人致力在当代中国致富。研究得出的结论是,无论中国话语中呈现的西方形象是否是理想化,妖魔化或其他相关的文化决定,它们都表现出对中国自我的一种焦虑。

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  • 作者

    Shi, Xiaoling.;

  • 作者单位

    The University of Arizona.;

  • 授予单位 The University of Arizona.;
  • 学科 Literature Modern.;Literature Asian.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2009
  • 页码 208 p.
  • 总页数 208
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类
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  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 11:37:50

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