The Hostel Experience And Literary Creation Of Chinese Neoteric Writers Studying In Japan

During the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China,those Chinese neoteric writers who studied in Japan were the mainstay in the period of the May 4th Movement and even the whole modern literature.They recorded the living condition and experience of oversea students on the basis of their own lives,with a strong autobiographical or biographical flavor.As for foreign young people in Japan,hostels are places accommodating their bodies and views,so the living experience turns out to be essential in the oversea life.This thesis focuses on the hostel experience recorded by Chinese neoteric writers studying in Japan,with an inside-out logical clue,in order to explore the relationship between Chinese students studying in Japan and hostel space,investigate their interaction and conflict in the hostel as well as the existing state of their bodies and spirit,and obtain the living situation and cultural psychology of these students studying in Japan.This thesis consists of five parts.Introduction.It makes comments on the research status of Chinese neoteric writers studying in Japan,introduces the value and significance of selection,and illustrates the research subjects together with related concepts.Chapter 1 Hostel: The Only Home of an Unsettled Life.It describes the relationship between overseas students and hostels recorded by Chinese neoteric writers studying in Japan from three aspects.First,some of the students have tried to escape from hostels,but finally return due to the ambient pressure.Therefore,the relationship between individual and space is pulled back and forth from resistance to siege.Secondly,short-lived hostels resembling a real home attract some foreign students,but in fact harmonious home is just a fantasy,and hostels are more like a place full of desire.In the end,homeland has become a prolongation of exotic location for returnees,who still flit among various hostels during the late studying period and fall again into the cycle of escape and return.Chapter 2 “International Stage”: Interaction in Hostels.Japanese hostels have their unique publicity,which turns out to be an important place for the interaction between foreign students and others.However,foreign students have suffered the color bar and the mockery from the opposite sex in the dealings with others.At the same time,the plot where the misfortune of students comes about in the face of others is designed on purpose,in order to make readers rethink profoundly the course of national civilization.Foreign students and compatriots are not always on the same side and live in harmony.The conflicts often appear in the hostels because of problems such as national character,social concept,and interest and so on.In addition,the writers studying in Japan also connect the life of studying abroad with the wide world through people's daily interaction in the hostels.Chapter 3 Bodies Bearing Heavy Burdens:Individuals in Their Own Space.Foreign students who have experienced a crackdown can only return to the hostel,which provides a private space,allowing them to develop a sense of dependence,during where they can abreact stress,hide feelings and discharge morbidity.This also forms part of the hostel experience in studying abroad.Furthermore,diseases,madness,violence and sadness are more than dark and seamy.The catharsis,rebellion and panic of young people in Japan in their own space have also manifested their motivation in fighting obsolescence and preaching freedom,making the hostel a battlefield for advocating young blood.The concluding part summarizes the whole paper.