The Literary Imagination Of Harbin And Multiple Ways To Narrate The Conception Of Nation State

The history of Harbin from a fishing village to a modern city,is the result of colonization.This paper has explained This city’s characteristic which combined modernity with colonialism.At the same time,it has explored the literary imagination of Harbin from different writer communities and what had influenced their creation.Thereby describing the literary imagination of Harbin and analyzing the narrative strategies of the conception of nation state.There are six parts in this paper.Introduction:Setting out the researches about the literary imagination of Harbin and putting forward this paper’s content,innovation point and research value.Chapter 1:Eastern Moscow——modernity combines with colonialism.This chapter sets out the Urbanization and modernization history of Harbin,and analyzes how The Middle East Railway led to it as well as the colonial discourse this railroad conveyed.In order to provide historical and present background for the literary imagination of Harbin.On that basis,this part also discusses the modern transportation and urban space,so as to interpret the colonialism in its modern surface.Chapter 2:A Hub Of Red Revolution——the narrative strategies of left-wing writers.As a hub of Red Revolution,Harbin provided rich soil for left-wing writers’ bearing and growing.Besides,the place which controlled by multiple imperialist powers had a more lenient environment than a single power.Thus writers can speak out their inner words.The left-wing writers in Harbin expressed their conception of nation state through writings combined class with nation.Chapter 3:The Turbulent “Iron House”——the narrative strategies of Jue qing.The writers lived in Manchukofu were subjected to draconian control measures,so most of them took obscure writing techniques to revolt,such as taking night as the story’s backdrop.Jue qing,compared with other peer,was more addicted to night describing,through which denying the reality.Further more,he paid much attention to Jewish people’s destiny.Their suffering experience in some ways reflected Harbin people’s.Chapter 4:“The Grave Of Happiness”-the literary imagination of Harbin from the Russian Chinese.Harbin overseas Russian writers regarded Russians as the creator of this city and Harbin as Russian cemetery that buried their Russian mark.So they tried all kinds of ways to keep it,for revealing their national identity.However,As time went by and more communication was made with local people,they were in perfect harmony with Harbin,one of the important factor was the local people shared the same sorrow of separating form home and country.Some of them settled in Harbin,the leavers recorded warm memories here,Harbin deemed to be their second home and even spiritual home.Conclusion:Summarizing the whole paper.