Between Character and Material Sorrow: Thirty Years of New Overseas Chinese Humanistic Literature in Japan (1990-2020)

About This Novel

This is the first monograph to discuss the new overseas Chinese literature in Japan. This book examines the history of new overseas Chinese literature in Japan in a global context, explores its particularity, importance, and the need to fill in the gaps, and proposes a three-stage theory over the past thirty years. It has a novel perspective, detailed information, and the theory is derived from history. It is a comprehensive, systematic, and holistic research result that reflects the process and appearance. This book studies Japanese new overseas Chinese literature for thirty years (1990-2020), corresponding to (or connecting) thirty years of modern Chinese literature (1917-1949), and has innovative significance in filling the gap. In the context of globalization, Japanese new overseas Chinese writers have begun to explore the language and culture of foreign lands, from "nostalgia" to "crossing the border", from "anti-Japanese" to "knowing Japan". Different from the "immigration" characteristics of the West, Japanese Chinese writers have a living experience and writing mentality "between character and material sorrow". Its significance is not only the expansion of Chinese literature overseas, but the deepening or "growth" of Chinese literature itself overseas. What is more significant is that because these poems and essays grew up in Japan, a place where Chinese people's emotions are extremely entangled and pain is always fresh, they have a unique and heterogeneous aesthetic value.

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