Relations Between Chinese Revolutionary Writers Went Southwards And Nanyang During The 1920s-1930s

The new Chinese literature in Malaya was born under the influence of "May 4th" new literature Movement. Also, it had close relation with Chinese modern literature during the succedent thirty years. From the initial "May 4th"new culture movement to the revolutionary literature, and next to anti-Japanese art and literature, Chinese modern literature affected the new Chinese literature in Malaya deeply. From the writers who went southwards to Nanyang from the late-1920s to the early-1930s, I select three Chinese revolutionary writers (Hong Linfei, Xu Jie, Ma Lin) as examples in the present paper. From their main experiences, important activities before going southwards and their social activities, cultural activities during exiling in Nanyang and their relative cultural activities after returning to homeland, It is not difficult to discover that using the writers who went Southwards as intermediaries, the Chinese proletarian literature movement during the 1920s-1930s promote the Nanyang " Lately Arising Literature Movement" to grow up. Furthermore, the Chinese left-wing literature movement had some different influence on the local literary arts, the social thought and so on. Certainly, the influence was not merely unidirectional at all. Through their particular characters' images and regional characteristics, their literary works using the Nanyang region as themes enriched Chinese modern literature treasure. By analyzing and summarizing the relations between the three Chinese revolutionary writers with Nanyang, I find that they not only have positive function on the integrity and enrichment of Chinese modern literature, but also can be regarded as bridges to communicate Chinese and Nanyang social cultures.The paper is mainly divided into three parts to discuss.In the first part, Not only the international left-wing literature ideological trend during the 1920s-1930s and their respective growth of proletarian literature movements in China and Singapore under this background are expatiated, but also their correlation and their difference between them are described. Both the two contents mentioned above can be used as background to introduce the three Chinese revolution writers (Hong Linfei, Xu Jie, Ma Lin) who exiled Nanyang from the late-1920s to the early-1930s. As the researching subjects, the three Chinese exiling revolutionary writers went southwards under the same social background, which mean that they must have the special cultural background and aesthetic taste of that time. At the same time, the thought artistic features with some unification must have certain effect on Nanyang society.In the second part, their main experience before going southwards, their lives, works and their literary and artistic activities in Nanyang, their literature products related with Nanyang after returning to homeland are analyzed and summarized, Through case study, on the one hand, it has positive meaning on evaluating roundly their status in literary history, on the other hand, it aims to illuminate the blood-like history correlations between "Lately Arising Literature Movement" in Nanyang and Chinese revolutionary literature movement during the 1920s-1930s, which can not be separated from the literary and social activities of Chinese revolutionary writers including Hong Linfei, Xu Jie, Ma Lin.In the third part, I illuminate the effects of the three Chinese revolution writers who went southwards on Nanyang society in the literature conception, culture and the social activity aspects and their interactions, which not only can make us to understand their intercommunion, their interpenetration and their interactions well between Chinese modern literature and Chinese literature in Singapore and Malaysia in the 1920s-1930s, but also can be bridges to communicate Chinese and Nanyang social cultures.