Study On The Cultural Theme Of Lao She’s Novels Under The View Of Civilization Conflict And Dialogue

Lao She’s novels have a distinct ideological vision of cultural comparison.During his creation process from 1920 to 1940,many of his works either implicitly or explicitly expressed the ideological theme of examining and reflecting on Chinese traditional culture from the perspective of western modern culture.Some of them directly reflect the social and life landscape of the collision,conflict,dialogue and exchange between Chinese traditional culture and western modern culture,among which,Mr.Ma and Son,Xiao Po’s Birthday and Four Generations under One Roof are the most obvious.Lao She grew up and lived in Peiping which was a city full of traditional Chinese culture from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China,as well as many years of travel experience in Britain,the United States and other foreign countries after he grew up,so he was personally in the environment of conflict and integration of Chinese and foreign cultures,especially Chinese and western cultures.Therefore,On the one hand,his works prominently reflect and criticize the weakness of Traditional Chinese culture under the reference of foreign advanced ideology and culture,on the other hand,he deeply exposes and satirizes the national oppression and cultural discrimination brought by western colonialism.Under the background of the national Liberation War,It more prominently expresses the cultural ideal of inheriting,transforming and regenerating the excellent traditional Chinese national culture.Therefore,Lao She’s novels embody rich cultural themes of multiple levels and multiple sides,and convey the national cultural thinking of interweaving emotion and rationality and resonating individual with The Times.Based on the perspective of cultural comparison and taking Lao She’s novels as the main object of study,this tries to systematically and deeply elaborate the rich theme of traditional cultural criticism,cultural identity and cultural ideal construction reflected in Lao She’s novels.In addition to the introduction,this thesis is mainly divided into three parts.The first chapter of this thesis,mainly for several multinational culture conflict novel in-depth analysis of the text,from the value of the people "to be officer" concept to the survival state of the "weakness and stand aloof from the worldly affairs",and then to "focus on family" code of ethics,Lao she is discussed under the reference to the concept of modern western culture,traditional to China culture of people living condition and value concept of reflection and criticism.The second chapter discusses the consciousness and tension of national identity when Lao She’s novels reflect the conflict of Chinese and foreign civilizations.It starts from three aspects: firstly,the criticism of western colonial culture reflected in Lao She’s novels;Secondly,by analyzing the similarities and differences between the Chinese people living in Britain and the British people living in China,it expresses Lao She’s emotional identification of his national identity in the intersection of Chinese and English cultures.Finally,Lao She’s construction of The Image of China in the southeast Asia cultural environment more clearly reflects Lao She’s national standpoint and identity.The third chapter focuses on Lao She’s rational examination of Chinese national spirit and construction of cultural ideal under the background of Japanese war of Aggression against China,mainly from three aspects of ethics of integration of family and country,cultural personality of integration of Confucianism and Mohism,and peace and anti-war thought beyond narrow nationalism.Lao She expressed the reflection of national culture and the construction of cultural ideal in the ideological field of civilization conflict and dialogue in the form of literature,which has not only profound historical significance,but also significant realistic significance.