China's Image Of Chinese American Literature In The20th Century

In this paper, the American ethnic Chinese literature(ECL) in the20th century for the study. Chinese Literature,with Chinese writing as the core concept, marks the disciplinary boundaries of the language of literature. Ethnic Chinese literature is named from the creation of the main ethnic identity, and covers all the Chinese literary works created in different languages. In this paper the concept of "Ethnic Chinese Literature", mainly in order to emphasize the "kinship background, emphasizing the cultural matrix in the space shift" Identity of the role play. On the text selection to the new literature of immigration of the Chinese American and Chinese American Literature paraneoplastic Chinese American literature in Taiwan, as well as some very vested in a certain group of writers, but writing successful Chinese writer. Chinese writer of this article selected, their creation is full of global awareness and cultural contrast. Compared with that in the single cultural context of the writing, the theme, perspectivestyle of these writers is obviously different.This paper conducted a cross-cultural studies. From the numerous literary text, summarizing four types of "image":ethical China, grass-roots Chinese,poetry Chinese, modern Chinese. These four types of image covers the formulation of the two languages (Chinese and English) and different genres of Chinese text. Discusses the categories image, mainly because these types of image shape angle is very representative of significance can be seen from the overseas Chinese kinship country differences in the cultural collision the other hand, perspective, style of cultural reflection and Expressive Strategies. Ethical China, grass-roots Chinese, Poetic China, modern Chinese image of these four is interrelated, mutually inclusive, together constitute a rich and complex image of China.The full text has three parts of the introduction, body (four chapters) and the conclusion. Introduction of domestic and international image of China research review, and lists the main issues and need to be addressed in this article the main research methods.The first chapter explores the ethical image of China from the family ethics, social ethics, three levels of Bioethics. Chinese ethics mapped directly in the overseas Chinese family on the characters emotions and actions, whether it is to accept, fight, or critical examination of all off can not afford this cultural tradition. Section1(family ethics) firstly analyzes why ethical theme in the literature of the United States and China see, because it reflects a different era, some deep-seated problems in the educational background, social environment, Eastern and Western cultures intertwined. The new literature of immigration is often concerned with the shackles of marriage; Chinese family due to the possibility of intermarriage, the sharp cultural conflict is even more obvious, the cultural identity of ethnic Chinese encountered more ambiguous. Chinese family life due to too much emphasis on human relations with other ethnic groups do not have pressure and moral introspection, which became one of the factors that hinder the second generation of Chinese character development. Therefore, the description of many Chinese works, the characters through personal efforts to achieve their own individual consciousness and dignity, through the rebel elders. Section2(social and ethical) is the analysis of the absurd years of non-rational collective personality and home of the Asian American personality mask the problem. Personality mask the presence of that ranking Chinese American cultural identity has a dual personality, the paper pointed out that pursuant to the common identity of anxiety in the Chinese population is unequal ethnic contacts, tug of war between the two cultural systems in individuals who The personality tear caused by. Section III (Bioethics) explore the variation and development of the Chinese Bioethics overseas,of the conception of death from rebirth, happy life, outlook on life, Maintenance of introspection, the softness of attitude. In short, the Chinese American literature, though written Chinese traditional ethics to suppress human nature, conservative and closed, but the dominant value orientation of Emotion Love family, family values, the benevolence friendly moral ethics and a healthy and progressive view of life.The second chapter discusses the grass-roots image of China. Representation of grass-roots experience and reproduction of the grass-roots immigration history has always been an important tradition of the Chinese American literature. This tradition represents the flow pulse, one can not ignore the literature students, intellectuals, writing, or middle-class literature, and liberalism writing to constitute a complete history of the literature of the United States and China map. Grass-roots image of China epitomized the bottom of the image of Chinese people, in the literature of the United States and China mainly into three types:First, the poor farmers in the continent Rural Society (Central Plains farming civilization), and second, farmers in the Lingnan culture is through immigration into from the exotic city of civilians, and low knowledge levels of new immigrants since the1980s, the United States to work. They reflect the "grassroots power", but natural internal forces of a culture, rooted in folk with spontaneous perennial weak representation inside a tough quality to withstand the tremendous force. This chapter first point of view extends from the left-wing narrative overseas, focusing on interpretation of Huang Yunji novel that the image of a guide on the character design, or "revolution plus love" structural model, sketch-style scenes, characters and psychological outline, as well as documentary and autobiographical aspects of his novel docking tradition of left-wing narrative of modern Chinese literature. Goes on to clarify the context of the immigration history of the Chinese writers writing ancestor, and that by reviewing the mining of the ancestors in the United States, railroads, reclaiming the experience of plantation, re-discovery and reproduction of the "hidden history for centuries, to prove the survival of Chinese in America legal rights. Chinatown that sound from the bottom of the deep to convey the ups and downs experienced and hard life of the Chinese in the United States, while little tough, good, the United States is also naturally present from the Chinatown narrative. Chinese people have long formed the Valuing Loyalty and reciprocity, self-improvement of the "collective unconscious","grassroots are the blood flowing, and are bound to long to light the road to find a spiritual home of overseas Chinese. This section also notes that in Western society, intellectuals, professional, social class, itself living in civil society, so there is no grass-roots and elite distinction, their sense of equality, peace, as the vision of a particularly distinctive. This sense of identity is gained by the United States and China writer; the same time, the writers in the United States and China have work experience or at least familiar with working life, so in their pens, painstaking and labor distinction is no longer insurmountable, they embodied "the underlying "Although the immigrant poor and lowly such as grass, but still dreamed of the Dance" move "Life, the Eagle of the firm belief of the sky. This chapter also provides the use of transnational migration theory works reflecting the life of early settlers, and understanding to go abroad in Guangdong village of farmers is not the passive displaced by unrest and poverty, but the courage to challenge, change of the pioneers of their own economic status. The mentality of the early settlers is a typical representative of the Chinese marine culture, especially the Pearl River culture. Pearl culture since ancient times pragmatic, sensitive, and competed to attract marine cultural refinement and closed awareness and less conservative, openness and progressiveness ingredients and more. The older generation of immigrants and their descendants are marked with the imprint of the Pearl River Culture, hung strong and enterprising spirit docking positive American spirit, but to withstand the extreme individualism of the intrusion of American culture, highlights the value and charm of the Pearl River Culture. The objective form the atresia barricaded the image of a rebuttal.The third chapter of the poetic image of China described the aesthetic imagination of the Chinese culture in China. Cultural dimensions and reality constitute some kind of opposition and complementarity, in other words, the Chinese American writers are dissatisfied with the social aspects of life in China,"culture" often they imagine the spirit of compensation, their poetic home. This chapter analyzes a number of English works of Lin Yutang Lin Yutang have a sense of elegance, quiet, serene image is passed to the Westerners, for change in modern times China's backwardness, weakness, ignorance, the image played a good role. Lin Yutang on the people of China Kuang pregnant with philosophical Tao the situation Qianxing lifestyle and focus on the aesthetic sense of the romantic and elegant oriental exoticism be extolled, but also has its inadequacies. He showed the image of foreigners, after extraction and deletion of the Ya of China. American readers can borrow to comfort the busy reality of the "leisure" taste, caused by mental stress, it is difficult in order to enhance the understanding of modern China. Wang Ting-chun and then failed to return to home in the swirling flames of war of war, so the image he described America America carry, has a troubled suffer worry grief, thus creating a nostalgic aesthetic of Contemplative. Poet Zhang wrong Downs the ancient artifacts in the modern time and space to examine past historical events, to express the nostalgic times past and the existence of philosophical questioning. Pei in America will be the former Taipei and New York home, reveals a noisy commotion of the city can never be replaced by quiet a long hometown. Especially the impact caused by the confusion of values since the1990s, one-sided development and economic development to many writers to bring the spirit, they chose cultural Fanshen, paid tribute to the ancient poetry of China, and nostalgia elevated to the level of cultural nostalgia. More part of the writer to transcend the cultural strength of the pattern of confrontation, not only to retain the strength of character of China, while standing on the height of world culture, mutatis mutandis, Chinese and Western literature and art. Such as wooden heart "Six Notes" boldness, Chinese and Western art explanation for the aesthetic judgment, showing a flair of classical culture, especially the traditional and the Wei, Jin and strength of character, adhering to the showing memory of Pursues classical, pure, style perfect Humanities.The fourth chapter analyzes the construction and absence of the modern image of China in the Chinese American literature. Since the mid-19th century, laborers, students heat, skilled migrants, investment immigration, to the United States,"the trend in the ascendant, the fundamental motivation is the huge gap in Sino-US economic, people for modernity the eager pursuit and desire. Chinese literature first showing the Chinese people to pursue the modernization of mental and shows them in the eyes of the "American" for the domestic audience. Cross-border "people" shaped "American" image, both China also showed how to look and see what the West imagine ways of the self. The United States as the end of the modern immigrants face of the West of the various types of shock, loss, envy of all kinds of emotions interwoven. This section also starting from the perspective of the modern transformation of the human experience more fundamental "than the history of socio-political and economic system transformation, the modern experience fundamentally represent the modern Chinese people (ethnic groups and individuals) in survival value or status of the world. Immigration as a Third World individuals witnessed and witnessed first-world story, more direct and representative of the present anxiety. Their pursuit of personal value and self-realization, emphasizing spiritual liberation and freedom, but such as cultural differences, cultural reflection, the pursuit of wealth, the pursuit of the feelings of the rich, and so many new modern experience of Health issued on this basis. Section â…¡ analyzes the new immigrant writers from which angle to look at and think about the ills of modernization with Chinese characteristics. This article recognized. The narrator look at a symbol as a nation the Rokkan Village,(Yuan Jinmei), history of Tuen (Treats), Oshima (Liu Sola), contains both a profound insight into China's modernization based on Western cultural reference system and the standard of value, but also retains the Enlightenment discourse that critical thinking on the structure of Chinese culture. They reflect on the negative factors in the oriental culture, looking for the Chinese people face, talk about the human sense of privilege, the negative effects of modernization. The other hand, modernization as a world historical process, there are common characteristics. Modern capitalism in the United States as "now", is indicative of the start of the reform, China's full accession to the process of capitalist globalization,"future". Chinese writers aware of the ills of Western civilization (modern civilization), and rational reflection, hope that China will not repeat the same mistakes, out of the modern road with its own characteristics. Section â…¢ from the horizon to expand women to the success of the community, the world's new qualitative three perspectives to explore the construction of modern Chinese identity. The modern workplace replaced the traditional community to the people the most important scenes of life and survival experience of the new generation of Chinese identity, their modern transformation. They not only won the conduct of the professional skills for the modern people, more critically, he gained the recognition of occupational roles and professional identity. The fourth part discusses the lack of Chinese American writers to build China's image. That new immigrants writer or Chinese-American authors were not to escape the mainstream discourse held by the United States on China's local and details inevitably suspected of "self-Orientalizing". However, it should be noted that Chinese literature can inspire us to take each other subjective understanding. Valuable point is that we see the image of China and Chinese culture "(regardless of the degree of distortion) in the foreign literature. As a result, the nation, as he who was observed and projected, the significance of this is seen very important. Breakthrough in the closure of our horizon was once blind spot area might be able to find some useful reflections.From a large number of discussion, analyzation and summarization on the ethinic Chinese literary works in America, the conclusion that the writing language and its target readers' expectations inherent in vision, social and historical context as well as Creation of the identity of these three is to determine a The main reason of the specific image. In the American cultural context, authorship of race, ethnicity and gender of these three major status symbol, of course, the author's social class, political orientation, occupational characteristics, the style, the situation in China and other factors, have a direct impact on shaping the image of China. Chinese literature in the writing of Chinese themes and exotic Chinese life, in fact, contains the changes of China's international image. Chinese Images in American Chinese demonstrate a variety of face:It can describe the dark side of Chinese history and the negative impact of traditional culture, to expose the brutal side of the "Cultural Revolution" shadow, and a devastating blow to human nature, depicts the bottom of people's living habits and evil; It can also be written in the memory in the memory of the actual situation and white aesthetic Township, or display of grass-roots immigrant male strong and enterprising spirit and the endless power, or review the difficulties ahead for China's modernization road. The former is not "new Orientalism", the latter is not "Oriental centrism. The colorful image of China, the United States and China writers respond to the mainstream culture, a narrative strategy and survival strategy. The first remarkable achievements of the Chinese American literature is not the Chinese image of the perfect appearance, but the overseas writers face the challenges of the spirit of their parent cultures. This is difficult the creation of new "immigrant culture" in exotic foreign land, is the reflection and open up the heritage of Chinese literary tradition and consciously significance.Chinese American literature has a dual cultural perspective, the dual cultural heritage, the description of the dual perspective image representation of the imagination of China and Chinese culture and attitude, while bearing witness to their country of residence, living conditions, life, desires and dreams. In fact it is precisely the multi-image can be infinitely approaching a complete image.