A Comparative Study Of Shen Congwen In China And Japan

Both in China and Japan, the research about Shen Congwen is generally divided into three periods:Before the founding of New China, Thirty years after the founding of new China and The advent of the new era. In this field, Ling Yu and Kojima Hisayo are outstanding and the Precursors,belonging to the same great era, their research take over from the past and set a new course for the future,very valuable and meaningful.< Go to the world from the border town> and < People and literary> respectively is Ling Yu’s and Kojima Hisayo’s representative monograph, which is the first one in China and Japan. Their Influence and significance are obvious. This two monographs are generally wrote at the same time, through them we can discover the characteristics and evolution of the research about Shen Congwen during the eighties and nineties. But after all, there are too much difference between this two cultures, so we can say the different tendency though comparing them.Two monographs about Shen Congwen in the research content and research methods have overlapping components, for example the research of Shen Congwen’s early literary creation, attention to Shen Congwen’s Hmong blood lineage, the research of Shen Congwen’s literary controversy, the historical study of the relationship between Hu Yepin and Ding Ling, the research on the psychological motivation of literary creation, and so on. Comparatively speaking, Ling Yu’s research about Shen Congwen is more rational and comprehensive. In addition, the sociological study of Shen Congwen is one of the major features of his research. In the contrary, Kojima Hisayo’s research fully reflects Japanese women’s delicate and lyrical. No matter <Alice Chinese travels> or < Yue Xia Xiao Jing>, she is devoted to describe Shen Congwen as a writer, who full of love and beauty.