Zhang Chengzhi:A Marginalist's Concepts Of National Culture

As one of the most important contemporary minority writers,Zhang Chengzhi is a marginalist influenced by various cultures with multiple cultural identities.After he traveled to other countries and nations,a unique concept of minority culture has been taken shape in his mind.His recognition,reflection and restructuring on national concept in his works has special features of his own.Zhang Chengzhi makes great contributions to the research on minority national culture through his profound analysis and consideration.Zhang Chengzhi's personal experiences have a great influence on his identity as a marginalist.When he was young,he was quite dejected and frustrated because of his failure in pursuing his dreams.His loneliness as an "outsider" forced him to go back to Loess Plateau in Shan-Gan-Ning district.As a result,he was able to find his sense of belongs in culture.His Hui nationality urged him to make an in-depth study of suffering spirit and religious spirit in Hui culture.He sorted out the relationship between Han and Hui cultures.Afterwards,he toured around the world and revealed the essences about the discrimination of dominant culture against the powerless culture.He was aggressively antagonistic to the core vision of "discrimination".Due to the fact that Zhang Chengzhi is a cultural marginalist affected by different cultures,he gave a further reflection on its disadvantages and weaknesses after his preliminary cognition about the two cultures.Meanwhile,he emphasizes the introspection from the cultural individuals,especially those intellectuals.Zhang Chengzhi criticizes the group of alienated intellectuals,especially when they are marginalized.Those who compromised with the powerful reality end up with the lack of the moral order and the low level of knowledge.Zhang Chengzhi seeks the rebel spirit advocated by Lu Xun.Those wretched intellectuals who are motivated by economic interest should be provided with positive rebelling spirit.In addition,Zhang Chengzhi appeals that intellectuals be coolly objective about the dominant culture and hold their ground.Zhang Chengzhi further strengthens cultural identity and brings up his vision for national culture structuring.First,Zhang Chengzhi makes a reasonable explanation of cultural nationalism and produces powerful arguments against the label of his cultural nationalism via his works.Second,Zhang Chengzhi takes Islamism for an an example and brings forward the survival problems of each national culture in globalization.He advocates that different cultures should get involved in the global cultural dialogue under the premise of maintaining its own cultural individuality.Only in this way can each national culture develop together.