A Study On The Novels Of Wan Baoshan Incident In Korean Chinese And Japanese Literature

The Wanpaoshan Incident declared the Japanese invasion to China has started, which was occurred in1931. Later it became novel materials for writers from China, Japan and South Korea because Chinese, Japanese and Korean were all involved in this affair. There are several novels, such as Wanpaoshan written by Li Huiying, Wanpaoshan written by Ito Einosuke, Rice written by An Shouji, Famer written by Li Taijun.All these works were using Wanpaoshan Affair as writing material, but different understandings and cognitions from the authors made narrative differences about the same incident. In a word, the identity of the author determined the standpoint how they thought about the Affair. So we could explain the issue of identity, which about nationality, nation and class, in such a particular contextual that colony of Japanese imperialism. The research compared and analyzed above works from the aspect of the mutual text of the historical event and literary works.There are lots of preceding researches on individual works mentioned above. But lack of study was done in the way of comparing and analyzing all of the works at the same time by placing them in the same level.This paper takes the articles written by Chinese, Korean and Japanese authors, which used the Wanpaoshan Incident for novel materials, as subject investigated. And it focused on researching on the similarities and differences between novels and the incident, in order to explain the effects, such as the identity of class, and nationality on the standpoint of writers interpreting the same historical affair.On the basis of above research purpose, this paper consists of three chapters to discuss.Firstly, try the best to tell the truth about the Wanpaoshan Affair according to the historical materials and research results. It is premise of this thesis. Only the historical truth was revealed objectively and fully, the recognization and view of the authors can be identifiedSecondly, by comparing imagery of the Wanpaoshan Affair in the novels from three countries, to display the same historical incident how to be figured out by authors with different nationalities and identities.Thirdly, from the aspects of the intersexuality of history and literature to explain that different classes, nationalities and counties have different perceptions and explanations of same incident. In brief, Wanpaoshan which written by Chinese author Li Huiying, was interpreted in class identity point of view. Japanese proletarian author Ito Einosuke’s novel was based on his proletarian stand, but as Japanese his national identity also affected his viewpoints on Wanpaoshan Affair. Korean writers An Shouji and Li Taijun, their novels were based on nationality identity to interpret the Wanpaoshan Incident, basically. However they had different perspectives on national conflicts, that their standpoints of the same incident were also different.