China as the Other in Japanese Literature and Japanese Authoress’s Viewpoint on War During Japan’s Aggression Against China: Take Fumiko Hayashi’s “The Journey of Destiny” as an Example
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    During the war of aggression against China, in order to enshroud their crime, the Japanese military headquarters sent out writers to uglify China and its people. China was figured as the other in their works. The China’s image as otherness in Japanese literature was a collective imagination of Japanese society under the influence of the Fascism and militarism. At the same time, the feminism based on parochial nationalism in Japan colluded with militarism in order to participate more deeply in politics and step up their social status. The life experience of Japanese famous authoress Fumiko Hayashi was a reduction of the change of the feminism in Japan. During Japan’s aggression against China, Fumiko Hayashi gave up liberalism and accepted militarism. The Japanese government sent her to the Chinese battlefield many times as a reporter. She changed into an active participator of the Japan’s war of aggression against China. When Fumiko Hayashi was in Nanking, she wrote a book that described the occupancy of Nanking named ‘The journey of destiny’. In this paper, the author will take ‘The journey of destiny’ as an example to analyze the China’s image in Japanese literature and Japanese authoress’s view of war during Japan’s aggression against China.

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王劲松.侵华文学中的“他者”和日本女作家的战争观——以林芙美子《运命之旅》为例[J].重庆大学学报社会科学版,2008,14(4):130~134

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