A Preliminary Discussion On Modern And Contemporary Chinese "Haisi Literature"

As a rich cultural symbol and heritage,the maritime silk road provides important cultural resources and rich spiritual nourishment for literary creation at all times and in all countries.The core connotation of the maritime silk road is the exchange and interaction of Chinese and foreign cultures through it.The cultures of different countries and regions along the maritime silk road collide,exchange and merge with each other forming a rich and diverse maritime silk culture,and creating a large number of literary works and phenomena which describe and express the Chinese-foreign exchanges along it.Modern maritime silk literature not only inherits the tradition of cross-region,cross-nation,cross-country and cross-culture communication of the ancient maritime silk road literature,but also integrates the strong modern consciousness.Based on the the perspective of cross culture,the paper systematically combs the historical context of the development of Chinese maritime silk road literature,using the theories and methods of comparative literature and cross-cultural travel,it analyzes the important phenomena of modern maritime silk road literature and the representative works,trying to reveal the rich cultural connotation and unique aesthetic connotation of modem maritime silk literature.The first chapter reviews the history of ancient maritime silk road and presents the definition and category of its literature.The maritime silk road originated from the mutual attraction of Chinese and foreign civilizations.Driven by political diplomacy and commerce,it became a maritime channel for material exchanges and cultural exchanges between China and other countries,promoting the development and prosperity of the world civilization.The connotation and evolution of the maritime silk road have a profound impact on the concept and category of the maritime silk road literature.The myths,poems,travel notes,novels and other literary forms born on the ancient maritime silk road have greatly enriched Chinese literature.The second chapter combs the development of the modern and contemporary maritime silk road literature,which includes the late Qing Dynasty maritime silk road literature characterized by practical aesthetics,the Republic of China time with enlightenment and aesthetics,and the contemporary time with praise and prospect.The overseas travel in the late Qing Dynasty made the countrymen gradually realize that China was "in the world".and created a new trend of opening to the world and exploring new knowledge.The maritime silk road literature in the Republic of China inherits the tasks of practical application and enlightenment in the late Qing Dynasty,and its creative subject has a conscious pursuit of beautiful writing.The contemporary maritime silk road literature becomes more and more individualized and personalized.The creation of the images of seamen and navy has added new characters and figures to the Chinese literature gallery.The third chapter analyzes the ocean theme and seaport in the modern maritime silk road literature.The marine writing of modern maritime silk literature presents brand-new characteristics and cultural spirit,activating the key to the modernity of the maritime silk road.The marine landscapes in different areas along the maritime silk road not only stimulate the creation of presenting marine landscapes,but also play the role of self awakening,further sublimating the authors' life philosophizing.As the forefront of modern cultural exchanges between China and other countries,Shanghai is the most concentrated embodiment of China's urbanization and modernization.In the joint efforts of Chinese and foreign writers,Shanghai presents a complex image with both primitive and modern contradictions.The fourth chapter analyzes the images of Europe and America in the works of the expatriate intellectuals.Europe and the United States are the most important countries and regions in modern intellectuals' writing,and also the most important external forces that affect the development and modernization in modern China.The writing of modern maritime silk road literature about Europe and the United States plays an important role in the spread of European and American knowledge in China and the establishment of national image of United States.It covers the imagination and thinking of the relationship between the self and the other,and engraves the hard journey of expatriate writers in the process of collision,running-in and integration between Chinese and foreign cultures.The fifth chapter analyzes the image of the overseas students and immigrants who are the important messengers of the modern maritime silk road.The humiliating experience of modern writers studying abroad has inspired criticism and reflection on the image of overseas students.The images of overseas students on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and new immigrants in the new century,reflects the change of the creative subjects from the loneliness and struggle of cultural conflict to the conscious pursuit of cultural interactions.The history and culture of the maritime silk road provide rich imaginative space and creative sources for contemporary writers.Zhang Wei's works about XuFu's eastward sailing embodies the literary innovation of historical themes of the maritime silk road.Modern maritime silk road literature,on the one hand,records modern Chinese's overseas travel experiences and world imagination when they go to the world through the maritime silk road.It is a process of understanding the world and constructing the other in modern China.On the other hand,it reflects the reconstruction of self-cognition with the aid of the other in the process of going to the world,so as to obtain unique spiritual experience and modern aesthetic experience.It is a process of re-understanding and remolding oneself through the world.As the narration and reconstruction of the self and the other,the maritime silk road literature has the cultural characteristics of heterogeneity cross-border and interactivity.During this period,it is accompanied by the process of alienation,opposition and integration of the self and the other.It is the witness and result of the collision,conflict,breaking-into and creation of Chinese and foreign cultures.It is also a cross-cultural dialogue of "you have me,and I have you".In particular,it should be noted that the cross-cultural dialogue reflected in modern maritime silk road literature is unbalanced and unequal,and has not yet formed an equal spirit of dialogue and a sense of coexistence.