Colonization And Disease

With the rise of post-colonial theory in the world,people are increasingly seeing colonization is not only an economic,political,and military issue,but also a cultural issue.This article uses the literature and culture of the Northeast Manchukuo period under Japanese colonial rule as an analysis sample to discuss the issues of colonization and disease.Outline the various narratives of diseases during the period of Manchukuo,placed in the Japanese colonial context for discussion,and analyze the production mechanisms,discourse intentions,narrative ethics,and the interaction between the author and readers.The thesis is divided into five parts,introduction,three chapters and conclusions.The introduction part mainly discusses the relationship between colonization and disease,sorts out related research,and puts forward the significance and content structure of this article.The main part is composed of three chapters.Each chapter focuses on the analysis of a disease narrative in the pseudo-Manchuria literature under Japanese colonial rule,discusses the discourse construction and literary performance of this disease narrative in Manchukuo,and presents the complex colonial relationship behind.The first chapter discusses the narrative of opium addiction.The opium policy of Manchukuo is closely related to colonial rule.Taking the two works of "Hometown" and "Diary of a maid" as examples,it analyzes the narrative of the opium addiction in Manchukuo,from physical control to political control.The second chapter discusses the narrative of Hualiu’s disease.Sexually transmitted diseases and their treatment have become a side of colonial governance.Through the advertisements for sexually transmitted diseases published in Mei Niang’s novel "Patients of Hualiu’s Disease" and pseudo-Manchuria newspapers and magazines,the colonial logic behind Hualiu’s disease narrative is investigated.The third chapter discusses an infectious disease-plague narrative.The spread of modern hygieneknowledge also has the intention of the colonists.Taking Gu Ding’s novel "Newborn" as a case,the colonial intellectuals were caught in the logic of the colonists while accepting the knowledge of modern hygiene;The article on anti-drug and epidemic prevention in China examines how modern medical and hygienic knowledge can be used by colonizers as an excuse for its justification.In the conclusion,from the narrative of the physical disease to the narrative of the mental disease,the narrative of the mental illness such as neurasthenia is returned to the topic of this article,which reveals that the various "dirty diseases" of the Puppet Manchu period such as opiate addiction,flower willow disease,plague Behind this metaphor is the manipulation of colonial rule.