On the Memory Writing in Walking Aloneand the Narrative Study of Japanese War Orphans in the Overseas Chinese Literature
Meng Qing-hua's novel Walking Alonefocuses on the living condition and the fate of Japanese war orphans after the Second World War,telling the images of the life experiences of Japanese war orphans left in China in the first person perspective,and reveals vividly the voice of the times hidden by the great history from an individual perspective memory.The novel concerns about the reality and living state of Japanese war orphans left in China,which is full of humanitarian care for the orphans as well as self-censoring and inquiry into the reality and the culture between China and Japan.The novel deals with the problems of exotic ethnic imagination through an intercultural approach,and offers some new perspectives and methods to think about Sino-Japanese War and the history,the ignorance and continuity of memory,the narrating of Japanese war orphans left in China.
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