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Western Image Of Chinese Foreign Literature. "cultural Revolution"

Posted on:2005-03-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C L QiaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360125461592Subject:Modern and Contemporary Literature
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The goal of this thesis is to analyze the western image of the Chinese literature concerning foreign affairs in the period after the Cultural Revolution, further paying close attention to the creative subject of the west, further showing the way how the writers describe and imagine the west through the literature ,as well as to master the crux of the times , society, literature and culture.The whole article is divided into three chapters except the preface.The first chapter: Emotional identity with the west of the Chinese literature concerning foreign affairs in the period after the Cultural Revolution. It is mainly to show that the culture and social factors behind emotional identity through analyzing the western image in the travel notes written outside in the 1980's and the literature of the students abroad in the 1990's. In a sense, to the point of the literary typical case, it provides a concrete example for the social and cultural influence on imagining and describing the western image.The second chapter: the theme against the west and the discourse strategies in the Chinese literature concerning foreign affairs. It is mainly to show that such subjective factors as writer's cultural consciousness of the nationality , the intellectual identity , the anxiety of cultural identity , the historical memory influence on the western images' construction through analyzing the western images of Zhang chengzhi's and Zhang xianliang's writings, as well as their emotional choice against the west. The goal of the research is to reveal that the writers' subjective factors constrain the western image' imagination and description.The third chapter: The historical review of the west by the Chinese literature concerning foreign affairs in the period after the Cultural Revolution. It's mainly to show that how the writers break away from the constraint of social collective imaginations and the thinking mode about the collision between Chinese culture and the Western culture ,and describe and imagine the West through analyzing the western images in the Neo-historicism novel and the women's writing in the post-new era . The real meaning is to show that how the writers reconstruct the western image after breaking away from the constraint of the social collective imagines.
Keywords/Search Tags:the period after the Great Cultural Revolution, the literature involved in the foreign, western image
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