The Cultural Progress Of North America New Overseas Chinese Writing In The Vision Of Poetics

This paper aims at the study of new overseas Chinese writing in North America. Their writing, being a narrative literature and displaying the experiences of the Chinese who are studying, working abroad for various reasons since the 1980s, indicates features of specific regions and stages of a specific period.This paper is devoted to the analysis of the cultural progress of new Chinese writing by means of poetics. The development of this regional literature is similar to the process of China's modernization in the past 20 years, and because of this homologue, new overseas Chinese writing in North America serves as a metaphor, the understanding of which can not only help us detect the trace of the new Chinese writing's development, but also help us master the cultural progress of the contemporary China.There are four phases in the development of the new Chinese writing: the writing published in the 1980s' belongs to the first stage; the publication of the two novels, The Beijing Natives in New York and The Chinese Woman in Manhaton, signifies the beginning of the second phase; the third stage began at the middle of 1990s, during which the new Chinese writing had been expanded in many fields; the new century witnesses the corning of the forth stage of the overseas Chinese writing.Owing to the influence of elements like the backgrounds, the cultures and the interior rules of the literary development, every stage has its own poetical features which are essential to the understanding of the cultural significance of the new overseas Chinese writing and the modernization of China. On the first stage, the poetical feature of new Overseas Chinese writing is the construction of images. These images, such as the "shadow", "glacier" and "Chinatown", betray the Chinese immigrants' retrospection on their own culture. The writing of the second stage is important for its documentary literature. The autobiographies represented by The Beijing Natives in New York and The Chinese Woman in Manhaton had been tremendously popular then catering to the reader's psychology of consumption. The third stage is characterized by its rational thinking in the writing. The moulding of the images of "the global citizen" is the poetical pursuit on the forth stage. All the poetical features not only optimize the quality of the new Chinese writing, but also exhibit clearly the trace of cultural progress of the contemporary China.