韓國華人華文文學初探

Abstract

Chinese-Koreans(or Chinese diaspora in Korea) can be divided into following four groups, (A) Chinese-Koreans who immigrated early in the immigration period; currently most of these people have passed away or are senior citizens; (B) Chinese-Koreans who were born in the growing and settling period; these two groups can be called the "earlier immigrating Chinese-Korean group"; (C) Chinese-Koreans immigrating from mainland China to Korea in the changing period; these people can be called the "later immigrating Chinese-Korean group"; (D) Chinese-Koreans who are not included in (A), (B) and (C) and had moved into Korea after 1945. Most Chinese-Koreans published their literary works through newspapers and magazines. Meanwhile, they also published some separate edition off prints. There are also some Chinese-Koreans who moved to the United States and set up the website for "South California Chinese-Korean Union"(http：//www.hanhwa-la.org), which has a Chinese-Korean literature and an art column. Literary genres from Chinese-Korean include poetry, proses, novels, play scripts and so on. Among these genres, proses writing made the most remarkable achievements. There are not only colorful contents but also diversified writing modes such as expressive proses, narrative prose and commentary proses. Poetry writing which includes old poetry and modern poetry also plays an important role. Other literary genres cannot be found frequently, thus requiring more investigation in the future. Chinese-Korean research in Korea pays attention to immigration, settling down, cultural identification in political, economical, social and cultural fields. However, there is not one research paper in these literary fields. Chinese-language Literature produced by Chinese-Korean writers must have its own characteristics comparing with Chinese-language Literature by Chinese diaspora in other areas of the world. The reasons are as follows: (1) The world-wide immigration in the early period never got any support or attention from the Chinese government; however, Chinese-Korean immigration achieved strong support from Chinese government. (2) Most Chinese immigrants came from south-east region of China but more than 90% "earlier immigrating Chinese-Korean group" were from Shandong Province which is unique among all the overseas Chinese. (3) Since the middle of 20th century, Chinese-Koreans have kept their own strong national consciousness because of economic and political discrimination coupled with a traditional Chinese education system in Korea society.