A Study On Chinese Creation Of Modern Mongolian Writers

This dissertation is concerned with several modern Mongolian writers who, as a special group, living between Mongolian (mother tongue) literature and Chinese literature, created works in Chinese. Their works wore not only the common characters of Chinese modern literature, but also their specialties. With the literature diversity, the focus on unique works-creating in second mother tongue has some time significance.Firstly, the periods and modernity of modern literature works are discussed. Considering the connotation of modernity, the social and political culture background, the developing principles of literature, the characters of Mongolian modern literature, a conclusion has been made that modern literature was born in late Qing dynasty. As the culture exchange between Mongolian and Chinese was flourishing as never before, a group of bilingual scholars occurred. Works-creating in Chinese from Mongolian scholars increased; translations of Chinese classics increased; the pace of the culture exchange between Mongolian and Chinese, which could be traced back to the ancient times, increased too. With the Chinese modern literature flouring, national minority literatures followed. It is a necessity for the birth of modernity both in Mongolian literature and Chinese literature. From late Qing dynasty to the founding of the People’s Republic of China, these bilingual scholars expressed their perceiving and understanding in their writing, which aroused and excited the Mongolian, whose enlightenment and modernity enhanced the development of Mongolian Chinese literature.Secondly, these scholars are studied and analyzed in the aspects of sense of national identity acceptance, personal experience, education background, identity status and their acceptance of the western culture. Although their perceiving and acceptance of the western culture are vague and one-sided because of condition limitation, their openness to the impacts from the exotic culture is a big break-through. Full-bodied national identity, rich experience, and diversity acceptance contributed to their writing. Going through tradition and modern, Mongolian and multi-culture, they showed the modern scholars’advancement with their openness, modernity, and tolerance.Thirdly, their works are studied and analyzed. This part is the heart of this dissertation. According to nationality, globalism, humanistic care and the thought of the people in works, the unknown internal value and enlightenment are exposed. With both national literature tradition and exotic literature factors, their works-creating in Chinese is more all-embracing than Mongolians, which embodied more multicity and complexity. Especially, the advanced ideas of anti-imperialism, patriotism, criticizing the politics, sympathizing the public and learning western culture, and the new literature form adopted after the Fourth of May Movement are completely new in Mongolian literature, pushing forward both Mongolian and Chinese literature towards modern stage.Finally, post-colonialism of Homi K Bhabha is introduced. Multi-culture impacts, multi-language combination, culture identity vagueness and embarrassing boundary writing are all their common features. The boundary theory gave the minority scholars courage and confidence in boundary writing. Self-centre and subject disappeared among these minorities. They fused minority culture with Chinese and even the world. Culture difference and the third space were presented in the special room where culture exchange took place without the boundary of nationality. The occurrence of this group has more and more social significance. They enhanced the communication and negotiation among different cultures based on culture difference acceptance, against hegemonic discourse in colonial period, in hope of achieving understanding and respecting among them.