@article{ART001532478},
author={朱 骅},
title={Transnational Change of Rural Allegory: Understanding Lu Xun’s Remark of Pearl S. Buck’s Writing of China},
journal={The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China},
issn={1738-0502},
year={2011},
number={25},
pages={343-367},
doi={10.16874/jslckc.2011..25.015}
TY - JOUR
AU - 朱 骅
TI - Transnational Change of Rural Allegory: Understanding Lu Xun’s Remark of Pearl S. Buck’s Writing of China
JO - The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
PY - 2011
VL - null
IS - 25
PB - Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
SP - 343
EP - 367
SN - 1738-0502
AB - Lu Xun’s casual remark of Pearl S. Buck in a 1933 letter shaped in a negative way the Mainland academic valuation of this 1938 Nobel Prize winner for more than half a century. Different interpretations of Lu Xun’s remark exist among scholars, which have always been colored by fluctuation of political sentiments instead of historical analysis. The present paper places Lu Xun’s writings in a theoretical framework of Max Scheler’s “ressentiment” to explore his inner drive in emergent modernity in China. Fredric Jameson’s concept of “Third World Literature” is also applied to establish the relationship between Lu Xun’s writing and his nation-state identity crisis, which in turn reveals his didacticist critique of Chinese “national character”. Opposite to Lu Xun’s effort, Pearl S. Buck follows the idyllic dimension to transcend alienation of modernity through her writing of rural China, which in the context of Great Depression was interpreted by the American readership as an allegory of hope. However, when Buck’s rural China was translated back to China, the allegorical significance in America got lost among a society of disturbances. Therefore, to a leftwing writer like Lu Xun, Buck’s idyllic rural China is but a missionary vision, conservative with imperial nostalgia.
KW - Lu Xun;Pearl S. Buck;Rural Fiction;National allegory;national character;ressentiment
DO - 10.16874/jslckc.2011..25.015
ER -
朱 骅. (2011). Transnational Change of Rural Allegory: Understanding Lu Xun’s Remark of Pearl S. Buck’s Writing of China. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, 25, 343-367.
朱 骅. 2011, "Transnational Change of Rural Allegory: Understanding Lu Xun’s Remark of Pearl S. Buck’s Writing of China", The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, no.25, pp.343-367. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2011..25.015
朱 骅 "Transnational Change of Rural Allegory: Understanding Lu Xun’s Remark of Pearl S. Buck’s Writing of China" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China 25 pp.343-367 (2011) : 343.
朱 骅. Transnational Change of Rural Allegory: Understanding Lu Xun’s Remark of Pearl S. Buck’s Writing of China. 2011; 25 : 343-367. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2011..25.015
朱 骅. "Transnational Change of Rural Allegory: Understanding Lu Xun’s Remark of Pearl S. Buck’s Writing of China" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China no.25(2011) : 343-367.doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2011..25.015
朱 骅. Transnational Change of Rural Allegory: Understanding Lu Xun’s Remark of Pearl S. Buck’s Writing of China. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, 25, 343-367. doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2011..25.015
朱 骅. Transnational Change of Rural Allegory: Understanding Lu Xun’s Remark of Pearl S. Buck’s Writing of China. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China. 2011; 25 343-367. doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2011..25.015
朱 骅. Transnational Change of Rural Allegory: Understanding Lu Xun’s Remark of Pearl S. Buck’s Writing of China. 2011; 25 : 343-367. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2011..25.015
朱 骅. "Transnational Change of Rural Allegory: Understanding Lu Xun’s Remark of Pearl S. Buck’s Writing of China" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China no.25(2011) : 343-367.doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2011..25.015
