Century Hui Literary Value

The appearance of Hui press literature in the early 20th century marked the birth of Hui literature of modern significance. It terminated the overall situation of creation of ancient Hui literature which was in undiversified pattern and lack of ethnic particularity. Over the past century, it has evolved into two types of creation gradually, Hui themes and non-Hui themes. They has grown together, and brought jointly the unique cultural quality, spiritual concentration and artistic innovation of Hui literature, created a multi-dimension world of literary value, and revealed inspirations of cultural inheritance and civilization evolution. But for long, there has been insufficient awareness in the academic circle about the value of literature of ethnic minorities including Hui literature, which is at the "edge". Intentionally or unintentionally, they are covered, suspected or preached down at large.Therefore, this research is designed to probe into such issues as the generation, evolution, ideological resource, and theoretical meaning of the value of centennial Hui literature on the dynamic chain of value creation→value formation→value realization, from a viewpoint of value theory. This aims to eliminate the "misreading" and "suspicion" about literature of ethnic minorities caused by "cultural glasses", prove and highlight the vitality and value of literature at the "edge", expect to reconfigure the territory of Chinese literature, and created centurial themes in multi-culture patterns.The preface discusses the origin, design considerations and previous outcomes of the research, pointing out that due to the overall unbalanced study on Hui literature, dissipated study data, and out-of-date comments, this research plays a pioneering role.From a viewpoint of value creation, Chapter 1 discusses the main value orientation and writing posture of Hui writers. Through analyzing the ethnical standpoint of Hui writers including Zhang Chengzhi and Shi Shuqing in scattered and converging areas, this chapter points out the important meaning of ethnical description, and further analyzes the causes of delayed development of ethnical description; upon investigation on exchange between writers of Hui and other ethnical groups in multiple culture, points out that the uniform social background and culture soil in a multi-ethnical-group country produces effect on the structure of primary value world of Hui writers, extends and deepens the study on relevant issues, and reveal the inherent mechanism of value creation.Chapter 2,3 and 4 elucidate the spiritual and culture value, aesthetic and artistic innovation, and social and political meaning of Hui literature from the viewpoint of value connotation.The poetic description on ideas of Hui culture which highlights both worlds and advocates cleanliness endows Hui literature with simple, elegant, romantic and passionate poetic particularity, improving its spiritual content and culture quality, matching the purport of spiritual value of literature that highlights on both "historical sense and humanistic care", providing a new visual angle and resources for current rebuilding of humanistic spirit.In novels, "Ahong" who stays between the holy and earthly worlds, the"mother" who is self-seeking, and the "boy" who suffers the pain of cultural entanglement; in poems, the "mosque", "yellow land" and so on contain the profound imagination about Hui spirit; in essays, the creation in unique type of writing builds an aesthetic world integrating abundant humanistic concepts, universe awareness and spiritual implication. It plays certain supplementary and expanding effect on aesthetic concepts and poetic theories of Chinese literature, and helps literary and cultural blending and innovation.The 20th century is an era with changing political events. It is unavoidable for Hui literature to be politically meaningful. This paper provides concrete analysis with Hui-theme movie literature and festival-theme novels as examples, pointing out that the love to one's country and education is the core political value.From the viewpoint of value realization, Chapter 5 examines the spreading course of centennial Hui literature, provides a case study of Muslim Publishing House (online bookstore) and Hui Literature (periodical), and provides specific measures for promoting the realization of literature value in a manner of traditional oral and aural spreading.My paper concludes that Hui literature corresponds to mainstream literature while making breakthrough and innovations. It is an epitome of Hui survival culture system which is open and unique. The paper specifies the great significance of Hui literature in the literature territory of multiple ethnical groups, and carries forward the excellent humanistic tradition of Hui nationality in standing fast to ethnical cultural tradition and seeking for advancement. At the same time, the paper makes some constructive suggestions on the sustainable development of Hui literature.