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Ambiguous Nationalism

Posted on:2012-12-06Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H J LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330368975135Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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New Sensation is the first modern Chinese literary history genre novels, formed in the early twentieth century Shanghai to the city as a modern hero of the story of men and women, the use of the performance of new creative techniques bizarre urban landscape, from content to form the"foreign"characteristics is the"Westernization"of the presence of a variety of colonial, ideological control of the relative freedom and, therefore, faced a different ideology, and feel the"colonial"and"modern"Shanghai modernist expression of a contradiction between the swing nationalist positon.This areicle is divided into four chapters: the first chapter, first to define nationalism; secondly, from the time perspective, the New Sensation of nationalism is a modern Chinese nationalism, therefore, necessary to understand the charateristics of nationalism in this period. Finally, discusses the semi-colonial Shanghai in the political, economic and cultural shows three"post-colonial"characteristics: political"globalization"of the state; a wide range of economic penetration, and"Western Center on"effect. After three chapters, respectively, from the hidden colonial consciousness, liberal political positions and contradictory cultural values discussed three obscure New Sensation, the wavering and contradictions in the nationalist position. The second chapter from the text reflects the tendency to judge the value and the creation of Western modernist techniques discussed in reference to two aspects, the specific performance of New Sensation"modern"shadowing"colonial"strategy and imagination of"cosmopolitanism."Chapter from the individualistic"general"literary imagination and counterattack with a nationalist left-wing sense of the class explaining the new political stance on the freedom. Chapter standing position of cultural nationalism, respectively, facing the New Sensation School when Western culture and traditional culture were discussed with the ambivalent attitude.
Keywords/Search Tags:nationalism, post-colonial, New Sensation
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