The Research Of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Reception In China

1913 Fiction Monthly published Mr. Sun Yuxiu's introductory article, the European and American novels essays: Hawthorne, this is the beginning of Nathaniel Hawthorne's reception in China. Nathaniel Hawthorne's reception in China has been influenced by the historical environment and literary trend of thought. Hawthorne's reception in China has different characteristics. According to the characteristics, it can be divided into three phases, the Republic of China, the thirty years after the founding of the PRC and the new period.During the period of the Republic of China, intellectuals wanted to use the courage of novels to enlighten men. The intellectuals noticed Hawthorne, the translation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's writings including some representative works appeared. Research articles about Hawthorne began to appear but relatively few. In this period,Hawthorne began to be accepted. The reason is that at this time, romanticism is respected and Hawthorne is one of the representative writers; he holds the important status in the history of world literature; his reflections on science caused the attention of intellectuals; intellectuals want to learn Hawthorne's writing style; the intellectuals pay attention to Hawthorne's works' female roles. In this period, Hawthorne's reception in China enlightened men, laid the foundation of later reception. Intellectuals study and use Hawthorne's writing techniques. It also caused people's more attention to female subjects, a large number of female protagonists appeared in different works. Thirty years after the founding of the PRC, China's literary development is blocked. Nathaniel Hawthorne's reception in China slowed down. Hawthorne's translations and researches are few, some researches even appear deviation. The reason for this is that political pressure is high and translators are few. At the time the literary history textbooks do not mention Hawthorne and the deviant viewpoints have a great effect on later research. In the new period Hawthorne's reception in China has many aspects of development.There are a lot of Hawthorne's translation works, there also have a considerable amount of researches. The researches study Hawthorne's Romanticism, symbolism gimmick, his view of religion and so on. The great development of Hawthorne's reception in this period is because the emergence of many Chinese translations facilitate people's reading and researching, the position of Hawthorne in the world literature have been recognized by our country's intellectuals, literary theory and education have great development. During this period, more and more people read Hawthorne's works, many writers prize and study Hawthorne, Hawthorne's children literature works inspire children's imagination.