Research On The American Military Images In The Chinese Contemporary Novels

In the fifties of the last century，the American military images began to enter theChinese Contemporary Novels with the outbreak of the Korean War. After60years ofdevelopment, the Chinese Contemporary Novels involving the American military imageshave had splendid sight, which have becoming an integral part of Chinese ContemporaryLiterature. However, the literary research community did not give enough attention to thesubject of the American military images in Chinese contemporary fiction for a long time, andthe study of the American military images rarely be found in related research fields.The development and changes of the American military images are divided into threestages in this article: the first stage starts from the1950s to the end of the Cultural Revolution,the second stage begins from the early1980s to the late1990s, and the third stage since thebeginning of the21st Century until now. Basing on the Chinese contemporary novels whichinvolves the images of the American soldiers, making the American military images’ changesand theirs causes in various stages as the research’s object, and using the research methods of"Foreign Literature" and "Image science" to analyze the related works, this paper collates andsummarizes the American military images in the Chinese contemporary fiction, in order tounderstand the evolution of the images of the American soldiers in Chinese contemporaryfiction and the reasons for this evolution and draw some useful inspiration.This paper is divided into three chapters:The first chapter studies the American military images before the nineteen eighties. InThe Seventeen Years literature and ten-year Cultural Revolution period, the ideological fieldis highly politicized, so the American military images during this period all follow the patternof the wind, and become abstracted and modeling. Writers generally show their critical andnegative attitude on the American military images. They think that the presence of theAmerican military images is in order to bring out the glorious image of the positive characterof our army, and it is beneficial to publicize and educate people at the same time.The second chapter studies the American servicemen images from the early1980s tothe late1990s. The downfall of the "Gang of Four" and the end of the "Cultural Revolution"injected free air into the Chinese literature, the whole society, especially the literature and artliterary circles were fully thawed. The subjectivity of the literature of this period wasimplemented in the main issue of the "people", therefore, the American military images ofthis period had obvious human characteristics. They are no longer the same face book-style role, but the real people full of flesh and blood.The third chapter studies the American military images of the21st century. With thedevelopment of The Times, the American military images of this period appear some newchanges. For example, the background of the times breaks through the limitations of theKorean War, and expands to the entire world. For another example, in numerous novels,human nature has further development, and the network novels become the main literatureform of shaping the American military images and so on. These new changes prompt theAmerican soldiers’ images of this period a lot more diversity and pluralism, reflects theopening of the times and the progress of ideology.