Sinitický nexus: Asianizace v čínskojazyčné literatuře Mandžuska pod japonskou nadvládou

Blahota, Martin

The Sinitic Nexus: Becoming Asian in the Chinese-language Literature of Manchuria under Japanese Rule Abstract This dissertation analyzes modern Chinese-language literature produced in Manchuria under Japanese rule during the 1930s and 1940s. The protagonists in this literature identify not only with Manchuria, China, and Japan but also with East Asia. In my readings, a sense of belonging to China or East Asia, but more often to the latter, is one of the main sources for the cultural identities of these protagonists. In this study, I conceptualize the identities represented in the Chinese-language literature of Manchuria as a complex combination of entangled identities that I call the "Sinitic nexus." I argue that the "Asian" element of this nexus of identities is constructed by Asianism, or the pan-national discourse of "Asia." While thus far, the significance of "Asian" identities in the Chinese-language literature of Manchuria has been overlooked both in scholarship on this literature and in the intellectual history of Asianism, I focus on it to reveal the complexity of this literature from a fresh perspective that goes beyond naturalized categories such as nation and the dichotomy of the colonizer and the colonized, and also to show how Asianist thought was creatively reproduced in literature through...

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