National Imagination With The National Narrative

The Zhanguo Ce Clique is a comprehensive cultural and academic school with bright nationalism and global consciousness in the history of Chinese modern cultural and literature. Taking Chen Quan as the representative of this school, this dissertation analysizes how this school constructs national literature and expounds its role andvalue in 20th century of Chinese national culture from the viewpoint of nationalism.At the beginning of this dissertation, I explicate the doctrines, cultural strategies of the Zhanguo Ce Clique as well as its claims that demonstrates its cultural ideals, then I put emphases on the discussion of its national characteristic of expression form in literature: one is national culture and its movement of claiming "state and nation"; The other is romantic literature of transforming nationality and remodeling national personality. These two forms are in fact two levels of national state literature with its inner unity. The construction is realized by the drawing of romanticism. The main part of this dissertation includes three chapters.Chapter 1 describes the national aims of Zhanguo Ce Clique, strategies of cultural reconstruction in the period of wartime and its literature with rich culture color. By doing these, this chapter outlines a new image on Hangout Coe Clique for the further study of Hangout Coe Clique' literature.Chapter 2 advocates consciousness of nationalism is one of main aims. This chapter analysizes the reasons, aims, strategies of advocating the movement of national literature and expounds its connotation and expression form of national literature. From these analyses, we can discover its unique value during the literature process of 20 century, especially the comparison of " nationalism literature " in the 1930's, by doing this, the dissertation not only eliminates wrong charge of " advocating fascist doctrine "but also makes up the deficiency of confusing and despising these two schools for a long period.Chapters analysizes Zhanguo Ce Clique Literature's important characteristicof romanticism. Having analysized ideological resource, expression form and the feature of his romanticism literature, this part defines his position in and his contribution to Chinese modern romanticism literature. The figures created by his literature have represented the new personality with " romantic spirit "and advocating " force ", His literature is a kind of practice of transforming nationality and remolding national nature.