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Revolution China In The Dual Cultural Sights

Posted on:2014-09-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X H ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330398494785Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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At the first half of the20th century, revolution is undoubtedly one of the most important keywords for Chinese literary history and cultural history. Since precarious and cruel political situation, not only so many hot-blooded youth sacrificed in revolution, but also a number of intellectuals drummed up support for the revolution in the literary battlefield. Jiang Guangci said to be the pioneer of the Chinese Revolutionary Literature writer, his short life left a large number of the works to performance Chinese revolution, such as Shorts Party, Out Of the Cloud Moon and The Last Smile. At the same time, the French writer Andre Malraux invests his creative eyes in the Chinese revolution, and continuous finished two novels--Conqueror and The Human Condition--to performance the Chinese revolution. Among them, The Human Condition won the highest award of the French literature-Prix Goncourt. Although the two writers have chosen a similar theme of Chinese revolution in the twenties and thirties, due to the different cultural background, life experiences and ideas pursuit, they have unique expression and reflection of the Chinese revolution. My research bases on explore the performance of the two writers in the novels of the Chinese revolution, and the unique shaping the image of the revolution.In this paper, the scope of the study is the image of revolutionary China in Malraux’s and Jiang Guanaco’s fictions. And above the parallel research perspective, use the Image Study of Comparative Literature, Oriental Studies and other related knowledge to compare and study the revolutionary image of China from their works, trying to through the text of interpretation, focusing on the feature of the revolutionary image of China and deep connotation of cultural and philosophy in the two writers’ novels.This paper consists of four parts. The first part is an introduction, mainly statements the reasons and the significance of the topic, and establishes this thesis and study method by describing the current situation of the research. The second, third and fourth part are the focus of the paper. Among them, the second part, mainly through the Malraux Oriental experience and the text interpretation of the two revolutionary novels to research his imagine of Chinese revolution, and his thinking of revolution and Chinese fate in future. The third part, by studying Jiang Guanaco’s revolutionary concept and text to analyze the image-building of Chinese revolutionary in his novels and his demands for Chinese nation-state building. The fourth part from the two writers bicultural sights to study their unique thinking of the Chinese revolution.
Keywords/Search Tags:Andre Malraux, Jiang Guangci, Revolution in China, Image, ComparativePerspective
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