Japanese Proletarian Literature (1921-1934) In China

As we all know, Chinese Literature was influenced by Japan’s literature deeply in the20^th century. If the research on Chinese literature is based on Japanese literature, theconclusion will be more comprehensive. To some extent, we can’t recognize andunderstand the modern Chinese literature correctly if the modern Japanese literature is nottaken into consideration. What’s more, the research on the literature relationships betweenChinese and Japanese has always been the focus in Chinese academic field.The research data shows that, there were not much previous research studiesconcerning the spread of Japanese proletariat literature in China between1920s and1930s.This thesis conducted literature review using influence study method to summarize thetranslation and research of Japanese proletariat literature in China. And then the authoranalyzed and illustrated the impact of Japanese proletariat literature on Chinese left-wingliterature.The thesis is composed of five parts. The introduction summarized the relativeresearch studies at home and abroad, proposed the research questions and introduced thethesis structure and defined some relative concepts. Chapter one was divided into two parts.Firstly, it introduced the development route and achievements of Japanese proletariatliterature. Secondly, it summarized the situation of Japanese proletariat literature inChinese translation and discussed from five stages, among which the translation climaxphases were during the1920s and1930s （1920-1936） and “17years after the founding ofChina”（1949-1966）, whose translation situation was the key point of discussion. And thetranslation status of “17years after the founding of China” was analyzed by AndréLefevere translation manipulation theory. In chapter two, it first summarized the researchof Japanese proletariat literature in China, and then analyzed and discussed from twosections. The first section analyzed the research situation of three representative writers ofJapanese proletariat literature, namely, Yoshiki Hayama, Yuriko Miyamoto and TakijiKobayashi. In the second section, the author analyzed the writers of Suekichi Aono andKorehito Kurahara, who were the two important literary theorist of Japanese proletariatliterature. In addition, the article discussed the influence of Japanese proletariat literatureon China in detail, which was also divided into two sections. The primary section summarized its impact on Chinese literature from the aspect of the literature group; and thesecond section discussed the “The Kanikosen Phenomenon” appeared in Japan recently.The last part was the summary of the whole thesis, which reviewed and concluded thethesis, stated the limitation, and examined the historical inevitability and potentialuniversal values of the proletariat literature.