Research On Chongqing Essay During Anti-Japanese War Period

During anti-Japanese war,the government of Kuomintang’ removement to Chongqing resulted in fundamental changes in the position of Chongqing: from a local political,economic and cultural center to a capital during war,then became a national political,economic,military and diplomatic center.At that time,numerous literature communities and writers came here.Though the writers who exiled to Chongqing were far from the front line of the war,they got rich literature achievements and formed special Chongqing literature during war period by using pen as their weapons.Essay,the light cavalry of literature,played a role of recording process of anti-Japanese war veritably,describing life during war and expressing anti-Japanese war appeal in Chongqing literature during anti-Japanese war,had prominent position in the whole history of literature during anti-Japanese war.This paper sorts out the overall creative style of Chongqing essay during war from the angle of “Anti-Japanese War Literature” and then excavated its ideology and artistic characteristics.It analyzes and explores writers’ mental thoughts and finally rises to the exploration of literary and ideological values of Chongqing essay in the whole essay history of anti-Japanese war.This essay consists of three parts: foreword,text and epilogue.The following are involved in foreword: questions proposed,current situation of sorting out the research of Chongqing essay during Anti-Japanese war,reason for project selecting and the value of research.The text is made up of four chapters:Chapter Ⅰ: The whole style of Chongqing essay during anti-Japanese war: starting with investigation into history background and social environment of Chongqing during the war,chapter 1 sorts out the creation situation of essay(including reportage,essays and lyric prose)whose writers were lived in Chongqing at that time,outlines styles of Chongqing essay during wartime in detail,further restores the true picture of Chongqing essay during wartime.Chapter Ⅱ: The changes of theme and style of Chongqing essay: Setting the year 1942 as a cutoff,with anti-Japanese war walking into stalemate,Chongqing essay shows changes in ideological contents and artistic styles.Specifically speaking,the essay theme expanded from war records to war life,artistic expression changed from popularization to personalization and aesthetic style changed from enthusiasm to stability.Chapter Ⅲ:Spirits perspective on writers of essays during wartime: Based on the essay works of writers Moruo Guo,Xuefeng Feng,Laoshe and Shiqiu Liang,chapter 3 analyzes different spiritual dimensions of intellectuals during wartime.There were left-wing intellectuals represented by Moruo Guo and Xuefeng Feng who devoted themselves to the construction of social culture and examined the fighting spirit of national culture calmly.And there were also liberal intellectuals,such as Lao she and Shiqiu Liang.They stood on their job with dependable and effective working style.Or concentrating on Chinese and western culture and looking into human future.Chapter Ⅳ:Literature history and ideological value of Chongqing essay during wartime: Explanations are mainly about means and values from the aspects of literature history and ideological history of Chongqing essay during wartime.From the angle of literature value,Chongqing essay during wartime has significant influence on enriching modern essay themes,promoting the diversity of aesthetic style of modern essay and constructing complicated relationship between literature and society.From the perspective of spiritual value,Chongqing essay during wartime writes the epic of the soul in the time of national crisis.The changes in essay’s theme,thoughts and aesthetic shows literary wisdom of the group of writers through the language used during wartime.In the meanwhile,intellectuals expressed their deep thoughts on national character and national culture through essay.It highlights the national discourse and national feelings,and the independent spirit of intellectuals.Accordingly it also has special spiritual value in ideological history.In conclusion,the creation of prose in Chongqing during the Anti-Japanese War continued the spirit of modern prose,entended the significant space of modern and promoted the maturity of new literary styles,for example,reportage and dispatch.It values greatly in the history of literature and ideology and plays an important role moderm literature.