The Figure Of "Overseas Students" Within Foreign Perspectives

From 1940,China did not be a independent country in this world any more ,and had to begin her modern process ,that is, modernity in China began. By the end of 1890s,more and more young men went to foreign country to seek new knowledges and methoeds to save our motherland, these persons became true transportors who take new cultural informations from west and Japan to China, among these persons, there appeared many celebrated writers, such as Lu Xun,Guo Mo-ruo and Yu Da-fu, they began certan ways of writing to describe the lifes of oversee students and constructed special figures about oversee students."Oversea Student Figure" or "Student Figure of Oversea" becomes special portion of modern Chinese literature, because these figures have certain indentities who have to encounter and experience the conflicts between Chinese culture and foreign culture, thus these figures abtain double indentities: both seekers of new spirits or cultural knowledges and accepters of conflicts between underdeveloped China and developed West. Restlessness to the desitiny of motherland in there heart, and desires to have cognition of foreign cultural informations comletely confused together.Through examination of these figures can help us comprehend the cultureal meanings within these figures, and help interpret these figures' porcess of construction. Prof. Meng Hua thinks these figures belong to the sphere of figure study, and it is this scholar who regards these figures as some "figure of self-fashioning" .To this essence, these is few researches to pay attention to the depth and validity from above-mentioned usage of "figure of self-fashioning", so the candidate want to begin his research from the view of "self-fashioning" to oversea student figures representationing special relation from geography to culture, between China and west ,especially between China and Japan at that time.Choice of Japan becomes the main streams gradually, for the relation from geographic position and cultural intimacy between China and Japan. But there exists enomous differences between China and his neibour Japan in many layers from national character to ways of modernization and to attitudes of life and communications. Japan is a country which prefers to surrender to successor and worship voilence, so that this country is accustomed to cognate and accept the rule of juggles. Under this circumstances, China and Chinese student in Japan undoubtedly experience the prejudices and discriminations from Japanese, even in sexual relation aspect, these exists dense shadow from those prejudices and discriminations, "discrimination of spicies" is the true attitudes to Chinese student endowed by Japanese. The result is that many writers represention this reality in different ways by aticulating oversea student figures in Japan and their lifes. All of these have certain ideological elements behind literary figures. In their works, writers let their emotions, conception of culture, consciousness of country and national standpoints enter their texts, representation these ideological elements by certain artistic technics, so if we analyze the formalization of the ideological connotation, we can see the rhematic me thods, and satisfy the deep analysis to this question.So the dissertation consists of seven portions including Preface,Chapterl-5,and Conclusion. In Preface the candidate describes and analyzes the background and historical context of the appearances of oversea student and the interpretitions about oversea student figure. Coming back to history, and seeking certain historical informations, the dissertation will have its rightfulness. Chapter 1 pays attention to PingJiangBuXiaoSheng and his novel, in this novel the author suppelies us the double indentities in the oversea student figure, both hero and the person having custom to live with prostitutes. These persons hope to become hero and have consciousness of their country's condition, but are indulgered in the abnomal sexual activities, and manufacture the myth of protitutiont, and there is filled with prostitutes in Japan, and Japanese male are short and weak, on the contrary, Chinese male students have enormos vigorious and tall and strong who can give huge satisfaction to prostitute .This discription upheavel the true relation between China and Japan, and the lost in realities of China is afaced by artistic way, this option is decided from the national standpoint of the Chinese students at that time.Chapter 2,the candidate deals with the relationship between "body and imagination of country", points out that "body is not only a kind of natural from, but also a kind of conception of culture". At the end of Qing Dynasity, oversea students cut their pigtails and change their clothes, and regard these life details as rebelion to central government, all the transformation about body become certain symbols to rebel and resist the control from traditonal strength, so no matter what actions happened on body will be symbol of cultural transformations. View of the Other give these figures special reflections to traditional modes of culture.Chapter 3 reflects the special condition of "maginalized weak country and his people", analyzes the commen writing modes how do writers deal with the reality of discriminations. Because of this discrimination, the relationship of sex between Chinese male and Japanese famale is affected deeply, and this relation permeates certain consciousnesses and national standpoint, even trans-marragement has two aspects both the natural and the intendency of country, and in many times the latter surpasses the former.Chapter 4 will research the successor who surpass the gulf of countries and finish the trans-marragement, such as writer Tao Jing-sun, in his novels, many figures have good fate and opportunities to abtain the love of Japanese girls. These successors are loved and worshipped by beautiful Japanese females. Although with strong national feeling, because of long experience in Japan, he has more complicated cognitions with Japan, and in cultural intendency, he is inclind to Japan and modern Japanese culture.In Chapter 5,the dissertation will face new love affairs after 1931,as most important turning point, Septemnber Eighteenth 1931 begins new relationship between China and Japan, Chinese students in Japan or have lived in Japan many years ago begin to separate from each other. Some people share suffering fate with matherland, they others betray this country and become betrayers of Sino, In this period, the figures of oversea student start to decline.Conclusion is the last part of this dissertation, the candidate points out concretly the postions of above-mentioned writers, and the histoical values and aesthetic values, even the significances of the oversea students as a whole figure and metaphor of fate about our motherland.