Imagine "Neighbors":Research On The Writing Of Soviet Russia In Modern Literature

With the western colonial violence, China not only in the face of crisis of " transformation" not meet the millennium,but also in the difficult reconstruction of modern nation state and the new identity of modern nation since modern times. The vision and the mode of looking at itself and the world has also undergone tremendous changes. From "the world" and "central country" turn to the way of learning the west, from "Chinese traditional ideas as the body, western knowledge for use"and "old China"changed into a "young China", China need generated in learning the west, mainly in Europe and the United States. However, while affirming the West as an important reference to young China, we can not ignore the meaning of its way of looking at "neighbors" and "periphery"to its construction, the Soviet Union, as Chinese "neighbors",is an important one. Moreover, the victory of socialist revolution associates the Soviet Union with modern China revolution, many intellectuals went to the Soviet Union as a revolutionary pilgrimage, in Chinese modern literature, especially in leftist literature, appeared many travels,poetry and fiction about the Soviet Union, Russia has become the important reference of China nation building, the future road design and the identity of intellectuals identification.Therefore, it has important practical value and theoretical significance to study the writing of the Soviet union in modern literature.The selected text of this paper is mainly concentrated in the 1920’s to 1940’s, include two kinds of genres:notes of travels and fiction, the former boasts of documentary, the latter named as fictional, but both actually can be regarded as one kind of narrative,they are both the images of Soviet Union under the eyes of the author, so this paper using "Imagine"to summary it. The paper attempts to answer these questions:How the modern literature to imagine Russia? What are the main aspects of this kind of Russian thought or imagine? Are the Russian images in different time and different text consistent?The difference is related to what factors? What kind of hidden relations between the imagine of a such great neighbor and the construction of nation and self identity of modern intellectuals? Among them, the relationship between the self and the other is the theoretical basis of this thesis.This dissertation is divided into five parts. The first part introduces the current situation, trend about Soviet research.In order to expand Russian imagination in literature research field,this paper introduces some views of politics and history in the study field of the Soviet Union, in addition to two research dimensions in the field of literature the notes of travels to the Soviet Union and novel in Belarus image.The second part introduces the theoretical framework used in this paper, Lacan’s theory of self-construction and the identity is to investigate the main point.The third part summarizes and analysis Soviet Russian image of modern China intellectuals written in notes of travels to the Soviet Union since twentieth century and the difference of Soviet imagine by the reason of writing time and different ideological background of the intellectuals.The fourth part mainly studied the the evolution and the similarities and differences of the Belarus image writing by leftist writers.The fifth part tries to analyze the relationship between Soviet Russian image in literary and the construction of nation and the self identity of intellectuals.