A Review Of Chinese Scholars' Study Of Identity Since The New Era

Identity is one of the key words of contemporary literary theory.Since the new era,it was introduced to China from western literary theory and Chinese scholars have been discussing about it in a broad way.This thesis mainly analyzes the current study situation of Identity in China from different perspectives.Since the introduction of Identity to Chinese academy with cultural studies,it has gone through several stages,from the early introduction of over Chinese Identity study,and then its translation and study on its source,until it became one of the key words of literary theory.Firstly,since the introduction of Identity to China,scholars mainly introduced from the translation,thinking source and classification of Identity and studied about its multiple connotations.Secondly,in the trend of globalization,the key attention of scholars is on the Identity issues related to nations,including the connotation of ethical Identity,the relationship between national identity and ethnic group's identity,and the construction of national cultural identity and Diaspora Identity.From their research result,Identity is always related to ideology and presents the choice between mainstream culture and non-mainstream culture and exists as mixed Identity.The national culture to build Chinese identity has fallen into cultural nationalism.In addition,a lot of scholars have done abundant discuss about the presentation of national cultural Identity in literary creation.They combined literature,culture and language organically,and mainly analyzed the writing techniques of Identity in overseas Chinese literature and Root-Seeking literature.Although there are different contexts in the two literatures,the writing of Identity have similar characteristics and have made choices in the writing of Identity.Finally,according to the studies of identity from different scholars,this thesis summarized the similarities and differences in Identity studies in Chinese context and western context.The study of identity has enriched Chinese literary theories and broadened its scope,and has broad influence on literary criticism studies.