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Comparative Study Of The Family Novels In China And Japan

Posted on:2012-07-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330338953791Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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China and Japan are a family-based national organization for the community, its family developing process directly affect the development of the course and direction of social development. In the history of Chinese and Japanese literature, once has produced too many to describe the family stories as the theme of family, greatly influence in the literary field, in China, there are Lan Ling Xiao Xiao Sheng's "Golden Lotus", Cao Xueqin's "Dream of Red Mansions", Ba Jin 's "home", and Zhang Henshui's "Noble Family", and many other giant macro articles, in Japan, Murasaki Shikibu's "Tale of Genji" and "Dream of Red Mansions"have many similarities, Shimazaki's "home" and Ba Jin 's "home" is not only the same name, but also the years have produced very similar, also produced Shiba Ryotaro's "Toyotomi family" and Yamazaki Toyoko's "Vanity Fair family", and other representative works.This paper selects the aboved several works to conduct the contrast research, the introduction part has defined the concept of the family novel, based on the overview of analysis of home and abroad research situation to determine the theoretical and research significance of this article. The first chapter has carried on the contrastive analysis to the family fundamental mode, summed up several basic modes of Chinese family novel: home business, courtiers and aristocrats, the feudal landlords and bureaucratic home, the Japanese side of the family were nobles, warriors House, Home of the feudal landlords, merchants of the home. In contrast found that the family basic models of Chinese family novel lack the basic warrior family. Japan's warrior class production, with its unique historical reasons,through to compare the Japan's "gentleman" and China's " gentleman " to deep-digging out the basic model of the traditional family form of differences between the two countries.The second chapter from the family character of human relationships to start, between the characters is divided into parent-child relationship, mother-child relationship, husband-wife relationship to a comparative analysis, in which the vertical parent-child relationships between characters in the family to occupy a pivotal position, which can be from the "child from the parent" and "child against parent" comparison of the two parts proven, mother-child relationship is summed up the basic pattern of the same harmonious mother-child relationship, different from the traditional and the modern were compared. Husband-wife relationship is divided into two parts of the tradition and modernity to contrast, Summary comparative inferiority of traditional relations between husband and wife in the same relationship, and that inequality under the representation of the relationship between a husband and a wife and multiple concubines and differences of polygamy.The third chapter analyzes the similarities and differences between cultural composition of the family, from the family system, ethics and customs of three angles to compare, found that China's family is formed as a link between blood groups, the Japanese family is based on the family business as the central management body, may select people who have no blood relationship as an adopted son to inherit the family business, but in Japanese family absolutely "loyalty" supreme, reflected its family ethics color is stronger, Additionally, the diversity of customs and cultural, found that the Japanese culture of good at absorbing foreign advanced knowledge and integration of the national culture characteristics, summary, created today's Japan.
Keywords/Search Tags:Family fiction, Basic types of family, Character relationships, Cultural, Compare
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