新中国建设与韩国* - 50年代中国中学语文课本中韩国**题材的报告文学

Abstract

In the early 50’s, newly established People’s Republic of China devoted its strength to “nation-making”. Under these circumstances, reportage, or “Baogao wenxue(报告文学)” was regarded as a literary genre which can reflect the reality, and valued as a new writing style which is appropriate to the new era. And Korean War was the main theme of the most reportage works in the early 50’s. The reportages with the theme of Korean war not only highly estimated by the government officials, but also included in the middle school Chinese(yuwen: 语文) textbooks, and increased their influence. In this article, I assume the images of “Korea”, “the Koreans” represented in the reportages covering Korean war are the reflections of the PRC’s grand project of “nation-making”. Using the images of Korea under the invasion of American imperialism, the Koreans suffering from the war, and the Chinese soldiers willing to help them, fighting bravely, these reportage works appeal to Chinese people to appreciate the country and the Chinese Communist Party, and enhance their patriotism.