On The Occurrence And Construction Of Nation's Image In Modern Chinese Literature

The anxious proposition for Chinese Nation as the weak was how to define and program Self on the modern interactive "Self Vs. The Other" platform. Correspondingly, how to express the people's thoughts and sprits by literature was the key issue to the Modern Chinese Literature especially when the Chinese intellectuals were involved in this historic course. In the context of "Self Vs. The Other", the writing on the Nation's Image had to endorse this binary opposite prospect of necessity. While in the practice, the national self-consciousness fused by nationality, politics and folkness, the representation system transited from "the Silent Majority" to "the Peasant Class" and to "the National Hero", the language form derived from Colloquialism , Popularization and National style surpassed the binary pattern in their different aspects. All of these experiences and faults will be beneficial to the current writing of Nation's Image especially in the national rejuvenation movement. This thesis will focus on the occurrence and growth of Nation's Image in the Modern Chinese Literature in the dual sights of self-consciousness and imagery poetics.The thesis consists of six parts. And its main contents are as follows:The introduction reveals that Nation's Image was defined by self- consciousness and literature. Because of the dual requests, the period in the thesis was set from 1917 to 1949 and was divided into three stages. The Nation's Image surpassed the traditional China's Image too.Chapter One points out the historic foundation and questions of the modern Nation's Image. The classic Central Image which was based on the traditional Self-center's self-consciousness and formed superior representation caused the anxiety in the modern literature primarily. Facing chaos, the Latter Qing Dynasty Literature tired to strike up many kinds of Nation's Images. Although these images were ambiguous, they summoned the occurrence and construction of Nation's Image in the Modern Chinese Literature.Chapter Two mainly discusses the development of the self-cousciouseness fused by nationality, politics and folkness. Nation's Image always establishes on the specific national consciousness. Chinese Nation was experienced from transplanting to resisting and to surmounting The Other. In this process , nationality, politics and folkness competed and influenced each other which striked up the national self-cousciouseness. At the same time the literature reflected the development of national consciousness; it also questioned and even corrected the mainstream by its distinctive practice.Chapter Three focuses on the summary and reconsideration of the representation system. The Nation's Image always demonstrated with the aid of some representation which manifested some criteria. When the criteria developed, the representation system transited from "the Silent Majority" to "the Peasant Class" and to "the National Hero". These representations manifested some spiritual criteria and reconciled them too.Chapter Four explores the trend of language form which was spured by the writing of Nation's image. Besides reflection of some criteria and demonstration by some representation, Nation's image should be expressed by suitable language form. For best being accepted, the language form derived by Colloquialism, Popularization and National style. In the experience, the absorption of western form and the transformation from traditional esthetic to the modem also provided with rich fruits and left historical limitation.The conclusion tries to induce the achievements and the faults of the writing of Nation's Image in Modern Chinese Literature. An open and benign Nation's Image should be established on the harmonious relationship between Self and The Other by way of cooperation of self-consciousness and literature.