解读林语堂笔下姚木兰.docVIP

摘 要：林语堂的英文著作《京华烟云》，出版于1940年, 成为当时美国的畅销书之一。该小说使我们看到从1910年的义和团运动到抗日战争爆发期间的中国社会概貌。作者非常形象生动地刻画了当时中国社会的代表人物以及一些现代革命者，尤以姚木兰为突出。她身上具备很多美好的品德，堪称为完美中国女性的化身。因此，本文旨在分析木兰的性格以及成因，以助读者更加深刻、全面地了解木兰。 关键词：姚木兰；儒道互补；中西结合 CONTENTS Introduction………………………………………………………………1 1. The manifestation of Yao Mulan’ s Characters 2 1.1 Compatibility of Confucianism and Taoism ………………………………………………….2 1.1.1 The Confucianism in Yao Mulan…………………………………………………………..2 1.1.2 The Taoism in Yao Mulan………………………………………………………………….3 1.2 The Mixture of Chinese and Western Features………………………………………………..6 2. The Causes of Yao Mulan’s Character……………………………….7 2.1 The Family Influence………………………………………………………………………….7 2.2 The Factor of Times…………………………………………………………………………...8 2.3 The Author’ s Influence upon the Creation of Yao Mulan………………………………….…9 2.3.1 The Influence of His Family and Education………………………………………….........9 2.3.2 His Overseas life Experience……………………………………………………………..10 2.3.3 His Female Worship………………………………………………………………………10 3. Conclusion 11 Bibliography…………………………………………………………….14  Introduction Moment in Peking was completed in August 1939, when Lin Yutang was in his forties. It took him a year to complete the novel. He started his writing in August 1938 and finished in August 1939. Lin Yutang had never written the novel before, but he was very confident of his novel creation, since he had said to his daughter that: “When I had a lesson about the evolvement of novel at Harvard, Prof Bliss Perry’s words touched me a lot, that is, some writers in western began their novel career after their forties. In my opinion, one cannot try easily the novel until he had gone through the earthly things in the world and with profound experience. Hence bearing the long-held wish to write a novel in my forties, I am bound to unfold my novel with complex human relationships, broad social ground, vast length, or if not, I will not start.” (Lin Taiyi 2002) Not surprisingly, it is appreciated as the most famous novel. Moment in Peking focuses