The Ethnic State Discourse Of Suiyuan Literature In The 1930s

During the nearly ten years from the establishment of Suiyuan in September 1928 to the fall of Suiyuan in October 1937,with the help of such literary media as Suiyuan Social Daily,Suiyuan Northwest Daily,and Yanran,the advanced intellectuals in the northern frontier of the Great Wall tried to build an imaginative literary tradition to awaken the people’s sense of ethnic national identity and enable literature to shoulder the heavy task of building a modern ethnic state.In the escalating crisis in the northwest frontier,the literature of Suiyuan in the 1930 s used national salvation as the background and the construction of people’s territorial consciousness as the writing theme.Through four paths: popularizing education,promoting scientific knowledge,using modern communication media,and promoting women’s liberation,it shaped the subject of national salvation and constructed the literary imagination of the nation.Use landscape writing with rich connotations such as home feelings,historical memory and cultural identity to participate in ethnic national identity and shape ethnic discourse.Due to the criticism and resistance of left-wing intellectuals against all warlord forces and the dictatorship of the Kuomintang,which were essentially due to the long-term conflict between the ideal form of modern ethnic-state and the rulers of the country,Suiyuan Literature,deeply influenced by left-wing literary concepts,advocated left-wing literary concepts,created revolutionary novels,carried out new poetry movements,and translated and introduced foreign literary works,To achieve the goal of building an ideal ethnic state.