The Manchu Cultural Identity Of Lao She’s Work

Lao She is an important writer in the modern and contemporary literature time. He is famous for hisunique Beijing cavity and humor all over the world. There are a lot of researches about him but few about hisnational cultural identity. National cultural identity means, the individual’s identity of his own nation includinglanguage symbols, values, spiritual awareness, ethics, etiquette norms, a sense of belonging and so on. For theminority writers, it is better for us to understand his works by studying his national cultural identity.The revolution of1911brought the slogan:“Driving out the Manchus”. This made manchus become thepersecuted in that time. Lao She had to conceal their ethnic identity because he was living in that special time.As a Chinese and a Manchu person, his identity includes not only the Manchu cultural but also the Chinesecultural. The changing of the Manchu status and his own life made his thinking was different. He had to dilutethe traces of national culture when he was writing, but we can find some context of Manchu cultural in hisworks. We can find some hided Manchu characters in his works. This paper mainly talks about Lao She’sidentity. In the first part, I will talk about the resource and the development of the theory. At the same time, Iwill talk about the unique of his identity. In the second part, I will talk about the cultural awareness of Manchuin Lao She’s work which includes Traditional philosophy, ethics and cultural inclusiveness. In the third part, Iwill talk about Lao She’s cultural identity from his experience, his subject and content and the image of hischaracter.The analysis of Lao She’s identity not only can make us to know the influence of it onminority writers, but also give us a show of the problems of the minority literature in the specialtime.