The Japanese Images In Mei Niang's Novels

In the occupied areas'literature in 1940s, there was not only literature of praising the traitors of Japanese invaders, but also some advanced works of patriotic enthusiasm and fighting spirit. Among them , Mei Niang, who activated in the《Literary selections》and《Literary stratum》with Ding Shan, Wu Ying, Jin Yin, Leng Ge, Yang Ye, Ge Hu, etc, as a famous female writer with her studying experience in Japan, created a lot of valuable, typical and unique Japanese image, using her special growing circumstance and great knowledge of particular experience of Japan. However, until now, there are few scholars having systematic research on it. This article is mean to overcome this gap. Most of Mei Niang's works were published in the 1940s, after suffering political persecution in 1950s, 1960s, with much miseries, Mei Niang changed parts of her works. This article summarizes the works before and after modification, selected some relatively representative Japanese image, and analyzed the characters to the following figures.The female image of Mei Niang's novel: as a much-talked-about women writer, her works'female image had unique charm. The women that she described were often considered to transcend worldly aesthetic, and have its own unique temperament. This article lists the landlord image in the《Little Women - Exotic chapter》, who cared for the tenants here as to care her families, and her enthusiasm and kindness not only brought the hero warmth, but also gave us a Japanese mother's dear and beloved impression. The traditional virtues of Japanese women had a concentrated expression in this old lady. In Mei Niang's《Nationals》(revised edition), which can be smelled the warm and sweet scent of motherly love ,there was a Japanese young mother carrying a baby pleased"me"for her sewing of thousand needle. The appearance of the mother and her child touched the trauma of Mei Niang's heart for the mother love, and this time it had risen to the humanitarian concern across the mundane world. This also further confirmed Zhang Quan's words, "the significant characteristics of Mei Niang's work are universal love of helping the public by financial aid and the subjective perspective of involvement in the world."Other than the image of the old lady and mother, Mei Niang also leads us to experience the elegant demeanour of professional women in Japan. In《Little Women - Exotic chapter》, the young women who sells children's clothes in the Yinzuo street with Japanese women's specific smile and humble, let people hard to refuse. For the hero, who was living in a foreign land and missing relative, and all the lonely people, the warmth that she brought was very important. Without exception, the three classic images of Japanese women in Mei Niang's novels are friendly and gentle goddess incarnate.The male image of Mei Niang's novel: started with the image as represent of authority ,the government officials and military officers,《Crab》(revised edition) mentioned several times of Inland Revenue Department officer Zhong Ye. He was simply the typical Japanese official in Chinese heart .Also, there was a very different figure in《Crab》—Oda, having gratitude ,which was the rare feature of Japanese image in that period of literature . Due to uncle Sun had gave help when Oda encountered difficulties, he always cared about the Sun's family, even hunted a job for uncle Sun's younger brother in Inland Revenue Department. Although some Japanese image in the revised version had changed completely, but Mei Niang reserved Oda as a"little short man, wore black clothes and white flowers". In《Evening's comedy》,with description by side, Mei Niang virtually described a Japanese military . With the secret deal with Tai-jun, the boss of starched room in the street was domineering. The content of deal was a good handsome Korean guy, brutally devastated by Tai-jun, suffering both body and spirit insult and injury. From that we can see morale declined, and potential hand controlling the fate of the dramatis personae. Except the governors and military, as represent of authority, there are also images like conductor and dunk, etc, they are common Japanese image in the literature of occupied areas. It meets most Chinese typical impression of the Japanese during the fall: they are evil, arrogant, greedy, shameless, stupid funny. In Mei Niang's novel, most of Japanese character in China is negative image and in Japan is positive image. For instance, the image of businessmen in《Little Women—Exotic chapter. Under the Japan government falsely advocated as"co-existence and common prosperity","Brothers of the state", deliberately hidden the intention of colonial aggression, only advocated"Brothers of the state","Concord","Prosperity"to public, kind native businessmen responded positively to it. The Japanese veteran was also a positive image in the novel《Nationals》, but he was different from the Japanese characters in《Little Women》who had a noble faith with"goodwill and co-prosperity", and the infinite yearning for the Manchuria. He suffered in the misery of war, which was due to the un-developed Manchuria. The character of veteran flushed a brilliant humanitarian beyond the war and hatred.This article takes the Japanese image in early version and revised edition of Mei Niang's novel for clues, combining with text and taking a specific analysis, in the meanwhile it appropriately combines analysis of the Chinese image to guess the reason and significance of amending the novel and understand feminine consciousness and maternal search of Mei Niang and so on. Through the understanding of Mei Niang's life experiences, literary creation, works modification and other aspects, to spy on the characteristic of creation, history environment and special significance of occupied areas'literature.