The People’s Daily Supplement Group And Myanmar Chinese Literature(1951-1960)

The Myanmar Chinese literature started since1903and left many works in the development of more than100years. However, due to the lack of data and the research group, till now still have no scholars going into its comprehensive and in-depth research. In the1950s, Chinese education and Chinese newspapers gained their development. Therefore under its influence, Chinese literature reached its blossom. Similar to some other Southeast Asian countries, the Myanmar Chinese writers in the1950s seldom issued separate edition and the main carrier of Chinese literature was supplement. Founded in1947,Myanmar China Daily, at the starting publication of The People’s Daily,it opened literature and art supplement, published literary theories, literature and so on. To a certain extent, it reflected the development of the Myanmar Chinese literature in the1950s. As the changing tenets of running this newspaper, the content of The People’s Daily, became richer and sales gradually increased then its influence on Myanmar Chinese literature became more influential. At the start publication, The People’s Daily reprinted Chinese literary theories and published literary works of Chinese writers. In this way, it provided imitating and learning examples for Myanmar Chinese writers. And also with the changing tenets, the literature and art supplements increased gradually. In addition to reprinting Chinese literature works, it also encouraged Myanmar Chinese writers to create literary works, pay attention to local life and cultivate a group of mature literary writers. Therefore it made Myanmar Chinese literature develop and prosperous. In the mid and late1950s, Hong Kong’s popular literature was popular among Chinese literature through spreading of The People’s Daily, and it widened the reading scope of Myanmar Chinese readers and improved appreciation level of literary works. Throughout the development of people in1950s, it was easy to find that, on a certain extent, The People’s Daily, shown a relatively clear outline of development picture of Myanmar Chinese literature and at the same time promoted the progress and development of Myanmar Chinese literature.This thesis is divided into five chapters.The first chapter is introduction. In this chapter, I introduce the research objectives, research methods and research significance.The second chapter gives a brief introduction of The People’s Daily, and its supplement groups. Firstly introduce the basic situation of The People’s Daily, including its founding background, aim and edit team. Secondly, it briefly describes the function and character of The People’s Daily supplement groups.The third chapter probes into how the Chinese literature is spreading among Myanmar Chinese literature through The People’s Daily. On this research question, this thesis discusses it from two aspects. One is spreading of Chinese literature in Myanmar Chinese literature field including the spreading of theories on literature and art and literary works. The other introduces the spreading of Hong Kong’s popular literature through The People’s Daily and gives a brief analysis on how it gets into Myanmar.The fourth chapter mainly probes into the development of The People’s Daily’s supplement groups and Myanmar Chinese literature. First it discusses Myanmar Chinese writers’absorption and borrowing from Chinese mainland literature and art. Then it makes an analysis on concrete manifestations of patriotic theme of Myanmar Chinese literature. Finally it introduces local color of Myanmar Chinese literature.The fifth chapter concludes the significance of founding and development The People’s Daily and its supplement groups and Myanmar Chinese literature.