A Comparative Study Of Korean Immigrants Novels And Northeast Writers Group Novels During The Northeast Occupation Period

Northeast China and the Korean Peninsula,which are geographically adjacent to each other,suffered untold hardships and dark days under the Japanese imperialists’ occupation and colonial rule in modern times.After the Qing Dynasty was defeated in the Sino-Japanese War,the Korean Peninsula,formerly a vassal state of China,was occupied by Japan.Japan forced the Korean Peninsula to sign various treaties to deprive it of its rights.On August 22,1910,the Korean Empire and Japan signed the unequal treaty of the Merger of Japan and South Korea,which immediately made the Korean Peninsula a colony of Japan.Under the Japanese colonial rule for 36 years,the Korean Peninsula experienced one of the darkest periods in the history of the Korean nation.In the 1930 s,after Japan forcibly occupied northeast China,it installed the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty,Puyi,to set up a puppet regime--"Manchukuo",which ruled Northeast China for 14 years.In the first half of the 20 th century,Northeast China and the Korean Peninsula shared a similar fate of imperialist occupation.At the same time when they were forcibly occupied and colonized by Japan,the "Korean immigrant literary circle" and the "Northeast Chinese writers’ literary circle" focused on the reality of colonization and turned their personal experiences in Northeast China into works.It is of great historical,literary and practical significance to make a comparative study of the novels of Korean immigrants to Northeast China and those of Chinese literati in Northeast China.There have been a lot of preliminary research results on the novels of Korean immigrants and the novels of writers in Northeast China during the occupation of Northeast China,most of which are a single study of individual writers or a whole study of related writers.However,there is a lack of comparative research results on the whole of the two migrant writers.It is necessary to carry out a systematic comparative study on the novels of the Korean immigrants in the period of the fall of the Northeast and the novels of the migrant writers in the northeast.This paper adopts the method of parallel study of comparative literature,and simultaneously uses other methods,including text analysis,empirical research and social history research,to make a comparative study of the novels of Korean immigrants in the period of the occupation of Northeast China and the novels of the writers of Northeast China.The second chapter of the thesis intersects with the subject of history and compares the generation track of the literature of the two groups of emigrated writers under the historical background of Japanese colonial rule.When the Korean Peninsula was colonized by Japan after the 1910 "Korea-Japan annexation," large numbers of Koreans migrated to northeast China.After the September 18 Incident in 1931,Northeast China became a colony of Japan.Unwilling to be a subjugated slave,Chinese patriots moved to the Pass to engage in anti-Japanese activities.The ethnic emigration of the Korean Peninsula and the emigration of the people of Northeast China were both caused by the Japanese colonial rule.During the period of Japanese colonial rule,the emigration of the Korean nation and the emigration of the people of northeast China have similarities,but there are also differences in the type,time and way of emigration.The 1930 s was the period when the Korean immigrant literary circle and the Northeast writers group gradually formed.Both literary groups were born as the national literature of emigrants after the birth pains.The third chapter is a comparison of the themes of the two writers’ novels by means of "intensive text reading" and "empirical research".Both the Korean immigrant writers and the writers of the "Northeast Writers Group" of China left their hometowns for the foreign countries under the Japanese colonial rule.Representatives of Korean immigrant writers include Ahn Soo-gil,Hyun Kyung-jun,Kim Chang-geol,and Kang Yi-yi,who immigrated to northeast China and settled down there.Xiao hong,Xiao Jun,Duan Mu Hong Liang,Shu Qun,Li Huiying groups and others as China’s northeast writers,their pens as weapons to the description of the northeast people’s anti-japanese struggle,presented under Japan’s colonial rule of northeastern China’s situation at that time.The two writers’ novels show similarities in the themes of patriotism and resistance,exile and homesickness,transcendence,overcoming and unyielding struggle.By comparison,this paper comprehensively analyzes the reasons why "Korean immigrant novels" and "Northeast writers’ Novels" have similar themes,and examines the different descriptions of the reality in Northeast China during the Japanese colonial rule by the two writers,as well as the solutions of the protagonists to the suffering reality and the inspirations they bring to the later generations.I have a new understanding of the literary significance of the two writers’ novels.The fourth chapter of the thesis is about the comparison of the characters in the novels of the two writers group,mainly from three perspectives to clarify the similarities and differences of the characters in the novels of the Korean immigrants and the novels of the northeast writers group and the reasons.The novels of Korean immigrants mainly describe the settlement and survival of immigrants to Northeast China.In the novels of writers in Northeast China,death is more reflected than survival,and the death of revolutionaries in the struggle is described.As for the depictions of female characters,Korean immigrant writers focus on the situations of women being paid off and bought and sold.The novels of the Northeast writers group focus on depicting the female characters with anti-Japanese tendency,full of fighting spirit and tenacity.In the description of male characters,the Korean immigrant writers mainly described the characters who tried to reclaim land and build their second hometown in order to survive and settle down.The "Northeast Writers Group" mainly depicts the characters who fought against the "Japanese emperor" and fought bloody battles.The fifth chapter is a comparison of the writing characteristics of the two writers.Contrast is a heavily used figure of speech in Korean immigrant novels.One of the characteristics of Korean national literature is a strong sense of criticism.Korean immigrant writers inherit the tradition,and the contrast in their works highlights the contradictory relationship and enhances the effect of criticism.The "Northeast Writers Group" embedded the enlightenment consciousness,which was difficult to express in the ordinary words at that time,into the works through metaphor,so that the readers could read the nationality of their works.The similarity between the montage of Korean immigrant novels and the stream-of-consciousness creation techniques of Northeast writers’ novels lies in that both are nonlinear and do not unfold in the chronological order of events.The difference between them is that montage emphasizes the free editing and switching of time and space shots,while stream of consciousness emphasizes the speaker’s mental activity and inner monologue.Both of them increase the narrative effect of the story and make the theme of the novel more distinct.Chapter six illustrates the significance of the two groups of writers in their respective national literary history.The literary circle of Korean immigrants in the period of the occupation of Northeast China ushered in the dawn of the literary circle after the embryonic period.With the upsurge of Korean immigrant literature in Northeast China,the works of immigrant writers Ahn Soo-gil,Kim Changgeol,Hyun Kyung-jun and Park Young-jun formed the voice of Korean immigrant literature.This is the literary achievement of the Korean nation in the exotic northeast China,which occupies an important position not only in the history of Chinese Korean literature,but also in the entire history of Korean literature.Although the writers of Northeast China did not form the same people organization,did not issue a unified program,and did not have the declaration of alliance,their works reflected the courage of the writers of Northeast China to deal with the reality,and reflected the key issues related to the national crisis through their respective group perception ability.The unprecedented catastrophe in the national history made them meet in a foreign country,and their collective consciousness spawned novels that lamented the fall of their hometown.The similar situation of the creation subject contributed to the similarity of the creation object,and works with similar themes emerged one after another.The writers group in Northeast China created a spiritual pedigree of anti-Japanese literature,shouldered the literary mission of that era,and formed the collection of black land literature.As the representatives of the two peoples who suffered oppression and exploitation under the rule of Japanese imperialism,the two writers wrote about the deep suffering of the two peoples and the common hatred against Japanese imperialism,thus outlining the deep hatred and strong resistance spirit of the two peoples against Japanese imperialism.The two peoples’ shared sense of oppression and enslavement inspired shared emotions and shared ups and downs,and their similar histories of aggression gave rise to similar literature.This paper follows the principle of "seeking common ground while reserving differences".Through the comparative study of this paper,it shows that the writer’s similar trans-regional migration experience under the similar era background will produce similar literary themes and characters.Because of the different literary traditions of the two countries and the different situation after the trans-regional migration,there are different literature.The two groups of writers in the same era formed the same frequency resonance of the history and literary history of the two countries.