Between East And West:the Cultural Experiences Of Chinese Modern Authors In Japan

During the late Qing dynasty to the People's Republic of China, "Traveling in Japan" is an important dimension of gaining cross-domain experiences and imagining the outside world for Chinese people. It includes several aspects such as studying abroad, tour, exile and visit. Especially from Sino-Japanese war to anti-Japanese War, the perception of Japan and World has been changed dramatically because of several large-scale waves of studying abroad and frequent communications between Chinese intellectuals and Japanese intellectuals.As for writers such as Lu Xun,Guo Moruo,Yu Dafu and Zhou Zuoren, Japan is not only an intermediary agent which introduces modern thoughts and literature to them, but also from which they obtain the cultural experiences of living in Japan with modern characteristics.Modern Japan is a special district which is between the "Orient"and the"West". Therefore, the cultural experiences of the authors in Japan have multiple attributes including "regional" and "world". The purpose of this dissertation is to discuss the features of the cultural experiences, and try to answer the question that what is the relationship between "Japanese experiences" and the modernity of Chinese literature.This dissertation includes four parts:language, landscape, urban culture and everyday life.The introduction gives a retrospect to the history of"Orient" and"West",and analyzes "Traveling in Japan". Chapter One discusses Language. There are some cultural phenomena such as "communicating by writing", "transplanted Japanese" and "hybrid language" in the process of learning heterogeneous language. The misunderstandings and conflicts from the heterogeneous language produces a cultural barrier, but simultaneously generates some new semantic symbols and means of expressing and a new language among the ancient Chinese, Japanese and English.Chapter Two analyzes the cultural experiences of Landscape. From the innovations of literary language to the" image of landscape" and "landscape on traffic line", authors in Japan often spot Japan's landscape and describe the landscape from the angle of modern visual sense. The aesthetic consciousness of the modern "cultural landscape" arises from the literary works of these authors. In addition, the cultural conflicts caused by the "Sakura" and "Fujiyama" reflect the contradictions and ambiguity of the cultural experiences of Landscape.Chapter Three discusses urban culture. By observing Tokyo, zoo, museum, city tram, cinema and other cultural venues, this chapter points out that new landscapes of modern city stimulates the national mood of authors in Japan, the new entertainment venues and traffic lines reshape the emotional expression and interpersonal relationship. Thus, there are two distinctly different psychological tendencies of "Urban dream" and "anti-urban". From the perspective of these authors, Japan's modern urban city is not only a place reflecting not only "hybrid culture", but also "The Third space".Chapter Four focuses on everyday life of the authors in Japan. It includes the experiences of "being clean", clothing and cooking culture, which reveals the conflicts of "civilization" from the sanitary problems. That is a form of modern lifestyle between the "Japanese style" and "Western style".To include, the above-mentioned cultural phenomena are products of cultural exchanges between China and Japan, and they also demonstrate that there exists multicultural dialogue between East Asian culture and Western culture. Therefore, the cultural experiences of modem authors in Japan can be said to be the experiences of modernity beyond the"Orient"and the"West"...