‘적선(謫仙)’으로 유랑하는 중국인

Abstract

“Jeokseongi (謫仙記)” is a novel written by Bai Xianyong (白先勇) in 1964 when he was studying in the United States, and it was published in July, 1965, in the 25th edition of “Modern Literature”, a Taiwanese magazine. This work depicts the life and downfall of Li Tong (李彤), the daughter of the National Party's high-ranking bureaucrat, in the background of Chinese civil war in 1947. “Jeokseongi” has been filmed in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and has frequently been on the theater stage. In 1979, it was performed in Hong Kong as a Cantonese theater play, and in 1985 it was made into a drama. In 1989, it was filmed by Xie Jin (謝晉), a third generation director in China, and screened as The Last Noble (最後的貴族). Bai Xianyong, from the perspective of overseas Chinese who are the borderline, focused on the wandering life of “Jeokseongi” hero Li Tong who could not return to his homeland after losing his parents but was wandering in the US helplessly. Xie Jin intends to point out the “sense of loss” felt by Chinese people after China's Cultural Revolution rather than the “wandering Chinese”. Bai Xianyong told the Chinese who traveled abroad, Xie Jin told the Chinese who had passed through the long tunnel of painful modern history, about the story of Li Tong, a Chinese who had abandoned his life in Venice. Thus, this study, attempts to examine the different thoughts of these people, Bai Xianyong and Xie Jin in their works. This will be a meaningful work to understand the exchange of Chinese, Taiwanese and Hong Kong movies as well as perception change process of Chinese and overseas Chinese.