A Study On The Contemporary Literature Of The Chinese Minority Nationality Under Influences Of Literary Periodicals In Chinese Language

Literary periodicals in Chinese language, as one of the important external conditions of the existence of the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality, is a significant window through which we can observe and study the development of the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality. It will be a fairly valuable jab to straighten out the thread of the generation, development and evolution of the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality, from literary periodicals in Chinese language point of view. The author of this thesis focuses on the development, its origin and evolution of the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality, which is an important part of contemporary Chinese literature, examines its development against the background of literary periodicals in Chinese language, a culture media. The author believes that while literary periodicals in Chinese language bear and represent the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality, it also plays an important role in generation and evolution of the latter. Previous studies on the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality mainly simply emphasized on the studies of writers, or gave a general view of writers and works, but this thesis tries to broaden the view, to study its publication, circulation and other sectors. In doing this, the thesis mainly studies the the influence and function of literary periodicals in Chinese language to the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality in the process of its generation and evolution, so as to further command of its rich and complex representation. The author hopes to prove that literary periodicals in Chinese language not only publicate, represent and carries the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality, but also exert subjective and active function as culture media: give birth to and participate in constructing the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality; that literary periodicals in Chinese language help lead to modern transformation of the literature of Chinese minority nationality, reconstruct a communicating space for the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality, and influence the latter from many aspects, such as ethnic group experience, signified tacticsand identity of writers, and so greatly effects the innerly included characteristics of minority nationalities, the contemporary era and literature; and that to some extent, it helps build the characteristics of minority nationalities, the contemporary era and literature, to make the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality as a part of contemporary Chinese literary and culture in which literary periodicals in Chinese language get its emergence and by which is permeated literary periodicals in Chinese language, to lastly become a living picture constucted in media.The thesis is devided into six chapters with a preface and a conclusion. The preface combs out the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality with a brief retrospection and comments on its achievement and shortcomings, based onwhich the author brings out his researching objects and methods--sets literaryperiodicals in Chinese language as object, in the view of culture media, and adopts the analytic methods of media, communication, ethnicity, sociology, literature etc to test the fuction of literary periodicals in Chinese language in the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality.Chapter one gives detailed definition of what is the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality, and a preliminary inspection of its important mediaenvironment--literary periodicals in Chinese language. This chapter, firstly,defines some general concepts, such as nationality, minority nationality, ethnic group, contemporary Chinese literature, and begins with systematized studies to answer what is the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality. The author agrees with a relatively broader comprehension to define the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality briefly as: the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality, is regarded as the literature created by people of minority nationality since the establishment of People's Republic of China, the kind created with a language of minority nationality or with a theme about minority nationality's life by them. The author hopes that the comprehension mentioned about won't contradict to the following one ie. the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality is a concept construct in the contemporary era and changes continuously, it has no fixed meaning, it is, to some extend, a flexible concept in practical usage; it is an expendient method to define the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality to have a good point in further says. Then, it examines the specialities of literary periodicals as mass media and its development in contemporary China, and its influence on literature as a whole. When examine the development of literary periodicals in contemporary China, we devide it into three periods: 1950-60s, 1980s, 1990s, and clarify its working and meaning in different periods. This, as a matter of fact, is to test the media environment of the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality.Chapter two probes into the modern transformation of the literature of Chinese minority nationality and the function of literary periodicals in Chinese language in this transformation. In contemporary China, Chinese minority nationality literature, like the whole Chinese literature, has undertanken a great change. Through this change, the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality begins and develops. And the change can be named as the modern transformation of the literature of Chinese minority nationality, in which literary periodicals exerts a great influence which can be judged from the fact that it is an important force to bring out the modern transformation of the literature of Chinese minority nationality and enable the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality to generate. One of the important points of this chapter is that literary periodicals in Chinese language provide all kinds of literature of Chinese minority nationality with media to present themselves, of this media, Chinese is general language, which realizes multi-cultural comunication with trans-cultural communication implication that surpass culturre of each nationalities. We can name it as multi-cultural communication that surpass culture of nationalities, or, simply as trans-national and multi-cultural communication. Under this circumstance, literature of every nationalities has full representation, obtains mutual understandings, and establishes a whole set of discourse system and knowledge pedigree of literature of minority nationalities, especially the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality. This chapter also wants to express other important views, such as, literary periodicals in Chinese language provide media that enables the transfer of literature of minority nationality from oral form to writing form; it provides a ground or evidence that enables minority writers to obtain the identity of their job and status .Judging from this description ,we could find that ,as an important power, literary periodicals in Chinese language stimulate the generation and development of the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality. We know the importance of classics in forming kownoledge pedigree of the history of literature, the Great Series of Chinese New-vernacular Literature and Art ? the Volume of Literature of Minority Nationality play a rather vital role in the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality, so in this chapter the author arranges facts from the Great Series above mentioned in tables to analyse influences of literary periodicals in Chinese language on forming of classics of the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality.Chapter three studies how does literary periodicals in Chinese language help to generate and evolute the communication space of the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality. Actually ,the time the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality begins , it constructs a special communication space or a literature field, surrounding literary periodicals in Chinese language. Literary periodicals, as mass media, is an unneglectable element in the construction of the space or field. Besides ,this space evolute with the time and the society . In this chapter, the author discovers ,explores and analysizes some events or phenomena such as the inclusive capacity of the task and requirement of the Forward of the People's Literature towards minority nationality literature, special colunm for Literature and Art of Froternal Nationality of Xinhua Yuebao, in late 1950s special journal and issues for froternal nationality literature or minority nationality literature of the People's Literature, Literature and Art Journal, Yanhe, establishment of Minzu Wenxue in 1981 and advertisment which was mutually publicated by nine literature periodicals Prairie, Shanhua, Bianjiang Wenxue etc. Such kinds of events and phenomina were not well percepted by previous reseachers of the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality, but it is these that marks out important sectors of development of the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality.Chapter four further discusses the relationship between experience of nationals groups of the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality and literary periodicals in Chinese language and identity of writers , and examines the influence and effects literary periodicals in Chinese language on experience of national groups and identity of writers. We know that the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality, in the majority ,is literature that is created mainly by minority nationality writers and reflects the life of minority nationalities. Among them, the expression of the experience of minority and the identity of minority nationality writers become critical problems in the creation of the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality and literature that concerns with ontology of the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality. If it is true that the above chapters tend to test a general and outer social culture of the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality, this chapter gives a minute interpretation of it by combining its essence and texts. The author manages to prove that in the communication space, the influence of literary periodicals in Chinese language towards the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality is intrinsic, which brings along thorough change to the latter. With this minute interpretation, this thesis deepens the research about the effect of literary periodicals in Chinese language on the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality.Chapter five and six take Prairie, a literary periodical of autonomous region of minority nationality, and Shanhua, a literary periodical of multi-national area, and Minzu Wenxue, a national literary periodical for example to examine concrete relationship of literary periodicals in Chinese language and the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality. These two chapters discuss practically from working policies, editorial method, column setting and other aspects in order to study the evolution of these three periodicals and their relationship to the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality. The author hopes to find special representation of the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality and concrete effect of literary periodicals in Chinese language in present the contemporary literature of Chinese minority nationality within the study of them.The conclusion part summerizes the argument, gives a conclusion, and briefly explains some points interrelated.