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Building a “New China” and Korea - Reportages on Korean war in the middle school Chinese textbooks in the 50s

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2008, (17), pp.355-366
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2008..17.017
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Published : August 31, 2008

KIM TAE YUN 1

1이화여자대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

In the early 50’s, newly established People’s Republic of China devoted its strength to “nation-making”. Under these circumstances, reportage, or “Baogao wenxue(报告文学)” was regarded as a literary genre which can reflect the reality, and valued as a new writing style which is appropriate to the new era. And Korean War was the main theme of the most reportage works in the early 50’s. The reportages with the theme of Korean war not only highly estimated by the government officials, but also included in the middle school Chinese(yuwen: 语文) textbooks, and increased their influence. In this article, I assume the images of “Korea”, “the Koreans” represented in the reportages covering Korean war are the reflections of the PRC’s grand project of “nation-making”. Using the images of Korea under the invasion of American imperialism, the Koreans suffering from the war, and the Chinese soldiers willing to help them, fighting bravely, these reportage works appeal to Chinese people to appreciate the country and the Chinese Communist Party, and enhance their patriotism.

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