Break Through The Historical Cultural Anomie

The thesis researches on Lin Yutang's cultural strategy and its value within the historical circumstances of the Chinese modern literature and against the macroscopic background of the cultural interlocution between China and the West, through analyzing Lin Yutang's works estranged from the mainstream of Chinese modern literature and his construction on the topic of the interlocution in the teeth of the Chinese and Western culture.Lin Yutang experienced the transformation from the swift and fierce criticism in the period of the May 4TH Movement, to the regress to the traditional interest, this brought on a serious conflict with the thought of New Loading Tao, which represents the Left Wing literature, because of the author's essay tendency. Contrary to the point to the anti-tradition, Lin Yutang's literary interests, in favor of the traditional culture, suffered fierce criticism from the mainstream of the New cultural Movement at that time, and made him become the seeming image of the conservative and reactionary scholar for long time. It's hard to judge right or wrong about Lin Yutang, because it reflects the conflicts between Tradition and Modernity, Revolution and Improvement. It will not be appreciable to the works of Lin Yutang without correct opinion on the Chinese traditional culture.Lin Yutang's cultural choice encountered intense inhibition because of the extreme circumstances in China, he could only "preach foreign culture to the Chinese, and Chinese culture to the foreigner", roving on the edge. In Western environment, Lin Yutang created successfully the interlocution topic under humanism, his resource just came from the Chinese traditional culture, which means prolongation of the traditional spiritual headstream and original character of the national literature. Lin Yutang was a successful interpreter, his interpretation emphasized the Chinese traditional Art and Sensibility(Common Sense), in order to resolve the spiritual trouble caused by the Western industrialization, in other words, take place of Metaphysical Scientism by Reasonableness in which rationalism and sensibility interpenetrate. Under the lopsidedcultural situation, Lin Yutang through his personal poetical interpretation to the traditional culture, built a bridge to humanistic conversation between the Chinese and Western culture, and delivered the Chinese literature as speech in the global scene.Lin Yutang could transfer independently inside multi-cultural conflicts, because of his stable thought motivations: one was Humanism, the other was Liberalism. These kept him transcendentally above' the cultural mess, and provided him with independence of thought in face of the complicated realistic structure. Specially as a liberalist, Lin Yutang kept distance much from the powerful circle, so that provided his works purely literary. His comparative view, based on modern rationality and humanity, and the strategy of multiple cultural contrasts, dissolved many synchronic strained opposite conflicts inside the multi-oppositional cultural structure. He could carry out gentle and smooth coupling diachronically, communicated freely with Tradition and Modernity, reflecting the reasonable structure inside his traditional cultural opinion, it's the embodiment of the author's creation from the thought of free art and his subjective wisdom.The above proposition is to correct the historical value of Lin Yutang's works, as well as the frame of reference to all the Chinese authors and the literature-it's helpful to consider the orientation about the value of the Chinese authors and the literature, by which it's beyond his text value. The history can provide apocalypse of cultural diversity, so we need to introspect the case of our cultural construction. Domestic cultural anomie and the Chinese literature's absence in the world over a long period, highlight his special value of the artistic sample, in the teeth of the Chinese and Western culture. It refracts out the obvious meaning across the span of China to the West, Tradition to Modernity, Aut...