浅议《京华烟云》的“道”【英美文学论文】.doc

英美文学论文-浅议《京华烟云》的“道”AbstractLin Yutang advocated the thought of “It ought to be order” of Taoism of Moment in Peking, with Confucianism as foil. The overall structure of the whole book was the philosophy of Chuangtse. It indicated the particular opinions how Taoists think of property ,pleasure-seeking, life and death, love and marriage. It illustrated clearly Taoists' philosophy ideas of their optimistic and magnanimous attitudes towards life What’s more, the author’s characteristic in introducing traditional Chinese culture to the west is using the form of novel, by which he created a variety of typical and lively characters.Key words: Lin Yutang; Moment in Peking; Taoism中文摘要 林语堂在《京华烟云》中以儒家思想为陪衬，弘扬了“顺应天道”的道家思想。

全书以“庄周哲学”为笼络，透露出了道家对待财富、享乐、生死及婚恋的独特观点，阐明并推崇了道家思想达观豁然、心胸宽广的哲学理念本书采用小说的艺术表现方法，塑造了形象鲜明、性格不一的人物是作者向西方人介绍中国传统文化的独到之处关键词：林语堂；《京华烟云》； 道 IntroductionLin Yutang, born in Long Xi, Zhang Zhou, south of Fujian in 1895, was the son of Pastor Lin Zhicheng He first studied in free missionary schools in Xiamen, and then went to Shanghai St.John's University where he learned English by heart and read a lot of western books. When he graduated from St.John's University in 1916, Yutang accepted a teaching post at QingHua College in Beijing. There he found himself surrounded by Chinese history and realized how small the confines of his Christian education had been. Determined to make up to his inadequacy, he began to study traditional Chinese culture and became interested in philosophy of Chuangtse particularly.In the literary world, Lin Yutang was one of the well-known writers, who was listed as one of the 'wisdom Figure' in 20th century in American Literature Area. In 1975, in the 41st International association of Poets, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists (PEN), he was selected as General assistant President of the association. And what's more, he was nominated for the candidate of Nobel Literature Prize. One of Yutang' s friends said that, the strong point of Yutan was to introduce Chinese culture to the foreigners and in return, to introduce foreign culture to the Chinese. Lin Yutang himself agreed to this completely. He used his own words: "two feet to cross over the eastern and western culture; One heart to comment the global articles." before 1936, he devoted most of his time and energy to bringing Chinese culture to the world. Many of his great works written in English such as My Country and My People. The Art of Living, Moment in Peking enjoyed great popularity in the west .He did contribute a lot to the exchange of eastern and western culture.In the late 19th century and the first 50years of the 20th century, the eastern and western cultures experienced a great historic conflict. Chen Ping Yuan pointed out in his book Aesthetic Standards of Lin Yutang and Eastern and Western Cultures that:" To the Chinese intellectuals of the 20th century, there is no doubt that how to balance the eastern and western cultures is a very serious problem. One is the strong western concept; the other is the strong patriotic feeling of their nation. The struggle drives them to roaming between the eastern and western cultures.”[1] During this big hit, apart from Western learning, there is also Eastern learning, which is more important for the Chinese to spread our civilization. Lin Yutang owned a special way of thinking that resulted from his own special life experience and culture environment, which made him experience the different psychological process as the writers of his day. His thoughts about human culture had been divided into 3periods in his 'cultural novels': First, after he did the research of the traditional Chinese culture, through comparing the two thoughts Confucianism and “Tao”, he advocated “Tao”. Second, after the comparison of eastern and western culture, Lin Yutang’s balance of feeling was inclined to the Chinese culture. Third, from the view of human beings, he found out that the eastern and western culture had their own weak points and strong points when he observed the world culture from the global prospect, and finally he proposed the culture conception in the future----A good combination of Chinese and Western elements.[2]In this article of Moment in Peking, the emphasis will be placed on the first period----“Tao”, or say philosophy of Chuangtse.Chapter1. Correlative Introduction of Moment in PekingMoment in Peking was written in 1938, when the Sino-Japanese war broke out. Mr. Lin's daughter Lin Rusi recalled:" In the spring of 1938, an idea to translate the Red chamber Dream dawned on my father after careful consideration, he found that The Red Chamber Dream was written long ago from now, so he changed his mind to write a novel which reflect the mordent life of China.”[3] The westerners could understand this novel more easily because the time and the background this novel set on was close to the author’s day. In March of 1938, Lin Yutang began to design the characters and plot of the novel. Aft。