Research Of Chinese Modern Writers’ Writing On Southeast Asia

China has been have many communication and relationship with Southeast Asia in politics, economics, culture and so on. The time of Chinese writers’Southeast Asia writing is concentrated in 1920s to 1940s and most of the writers had some experience in Southeast Asia. Some of the writers traveled through Southeast Asia, like Ba Jin and Xu Zhimo; some of them had worked there for a while, like Lao She and Xu Dishan;some of them were forced to exile in Southeast Asia because of the war, like Yu Dafu and Ba Ren; some of them had led a vagrant life in for in Southeast Asia for their subjective will, like Ai Wu. These writers became attached to Southeast Asia for many reasons and Southeast Asia affected their writing in novels, prose, poetry and other forms of literature.In the Chinese writers’Southeast Asia writing, there are many recording and description of the writers’wander experience in foreign. From the writing, we can see the writers’strong feeling of homesickness and the intense patriotic sentiment. There is also lots of Southeast Asia’s unique tropical customs and practices in the writing, from which we can get to know the local tropic scenery, strange multi national customs, folk houses and the local people’s free, wild pursuit of love. The experience of Chinese writers’wander in the bottom of society made them to comprehend the hard life of Chinese immigrants so deeply that they picked up pens and composed one elegy of the Chinese immigrants’surviving after another.Southeast Asia was a pluralistic society of multi-ethnic and multiracial, which caused diversity religious faith, collision and blending of various cultures, but also brought contradictions and conflicts, such as prone to racial prejudice and cultural discrimination. The pluralistic society led to complexity of the culture too. There were Chinese inheriting Chinese culture, Chinese being attacked by local culture and western culture in the Southeast Asia for the complex culture. Descendants of Chinese immigrants deviated from Chinese culture gradually and the local culture was pushed out slowly for the strong western culture’s invasion. The Chinese writers in the whirlpool of multiculturalism scanned and showed cultural landscape in Southeast Asia, convey their own cultural attitudes and positions through their works.From the point of view of artistic expression, Chinese writers used means of fantasy to depict Southeast Asia constantly. Besides applied the exaggerated style of writing to character and rendering local customs, the writer quoted local legends and anecdotes to enhance the effect of works’fantasy. But in some works, the writer made use of the documentary approach to describe Southeast Asia, for instances, truthfully recorded what the writer sees and hears during his wanderings by means of travel notes, gave views on current events through argumentative essay, enforced the truth of articles by inserting real historical events and even directly referencing the newspaper reports.Southeast Asia, as a hub of some Chinese writers’ life, provided them places of survival and refuge, also provided them rich emotional experience and creative material. For this situation, it’s worth to research their writing on Southeast Asia.The main research is Chinese modern writers’ writing on Southeast Asia in this thesis, and the content of which are shown as follows:The part of introduction arranged research status, clarified the reason for choosing this topic and illustrated the significance of the topic.The main content of the first chapter, which was separately analyzed from the records of Chinese writers’ wandering in foreign, the customs of Southeast Asia and the hard life of Chinese immigrants, was explaining the basic substance of Chinese modern writers’ writing on Southeast Asia,.In the second chapter, the culture connotations of Chinese modern writers’ writing on Southeast Asia were studied. The main idea was discussed mainly from the discrimination and contradictions caused by multiracial and multiculturalism, the collision and blending of Chinese culture, local culture and western culture, the cultural attitudes and the position of Chinese writers and other aspects.The literary techniques, mainly being fantasy and documentary, utilized by Chinese modern writers when describing Southeast Asia were investigated in the third chapter.The epilogue summarized the full text, pondered the meaning and the limit of Chinese modern writers’ writing on Southeast Asia.