A Study To The Literary Works About The Nanjing Massacre By Chinese Authors

On December 13,1937,Japanese troops invaded Nanjing City and made the extremely brutal Nanjing Massacre.The tragedy made by Japanese militarism has brought humiliation to the Chinese nation.The Nanjing Massacre has also become the subject written by Chinese and foreign writers.The writing about the Nanjing Massacre by different nationalities and different periods is different.This article aims to explore the Chinese authors' writing style and significance.Chinese authors consistently uphold nationalist stance in the literary writing of the Nanjing Massacre and show the realistic significance and historical care of the Nanjing Massacre.This article consists of six parts.The introduction part mainly sorts out the research status of the Nanjing Massacre and analyzes the current academic literature research on the theme of the Nanjing Massacre by Chinese authors.Based on this,it puts forward the research value,the writing ideas and the research method of this paper.The first chapter combs the writing about the Nanjing Massacre at different stages by Chinese authors.The writing about the Nanjing Massacre by Chinese authors embodies the characteristics of the times,and embodies different nationalist ideas,historical ideas and cultural gestures in different periods.The writing during the Anti-Japanese War period focused on the promotion of the will of the entire nation to resist the war;The writing from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the mid-1990 s focused on political awareness and class position;the works in the past two decades have shown concern about the human destiny,demonstrated the distortion of human nature caused by the war,the understanding of the suffering caused by the Nanjing Massacre tends to be diversified.The second chapter focuses on the analysis of the internal relations among individual,family and country during the national war.In the ethical chain of 'Self-cultivating;family-regulating;state-ordering;then the land great governed',the relationship among individual,family,and country is a progressive harmonious relationship,but when the nation-state is violated,the principle of supreme survival of nation-states constitutes a squeeze on the existence of �individual' and �family.'The choice of �individual,�family' or �nation' during the national war often goes from the �leaving the hometown' to the �guarding the country'.The third chapter mainly analyzes the religious image in the writing about �Nanjing Massacre'.Religion is a special aspect full of mystery and it seems to be isolated from the real world.Different religions have their own deities and doctrines,the doctrines of many religions contain the concept of salvation.In the literary works about the Nanjing Massacre written by Chinese authors,the writing of Buddhism and Christianity during the war constituted two aspects of the writer's national expression.Religions are both unified and differentiated.In the works of Chinese authors who stand in a nationalist position,the meaning of salvation given to Buddhism is stronger than that of Christianity,which even negates Christian salvation,which reflects the Chinese writers' self-consciousness and self-confidence to their own national culture.The fourth chapter mainly analyzes the traumatic memory of the Chinese nation which is brought by the Nanjing Massacre.In the writing of Chinese authors,the Japanese army not only destroyed the body and spirit of the Chinese people,but also tried to dismantle the core values of Chinese culture.There is nothing more persuasive than suffering itself for suffering.The survivors of the Nanjing Massacre have gradually passed away,but their trauma has become a national memory.The conclusion part summarizes the whole text and explains the writing position of the Nanjing Massacre.The writing of the "Nanjing Massacre" needs to be integrated with contemporary concepts and realistic concerns.In the narrative of suffering,it is necessary to restore history and reflect on culture,the history is remembered to alert descendants.