英文摘要
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In today's Chinese-speaking world, the study on Eileen Chang has increasingly been becoming more and more prominent. However, scant attention has been given to the inherent connections between Eileen Chang, who made her mark during the 'hot war' and the then political discourse of Shanghai. The marked tendency of 'de-politicization' may not be conducive for scholars to carry out deeper studies on Eileen Chang and her writing. Under the Japanese occupation, the ousting of Anglo-US and the East Asian Renaissance Movement launched by Wang Jing Wei's puppet regime significantly impacted the creativeness of the literati of Shanghai. The early writing of Eileen Chang could be regarded as a reaction to the ousting of Anglo-US. However, the contexts of retro ancient culture created by the East Asian Renaissance also imposed restraints on the style of Eileen Chang's writing. Zhe Fei, the critic of a magazine under the Xingjian Group (Reinvigorating Asia and Rebuilding the Nation) developed the thesis of communicating human nature, which served as a guide for Eileen Chang to explore human nature further. Hu Lancheng's comments on Eileen Chang, ridden with justifications and whitewash of his affiliation with Wang's puppet regime, was essentially the "lyricism of betrayal" in another form. By probing into the discourse system created by Wang's puppet regime during wartime, this author finds that Eileen Chang's experience during this period had a strong political coloration.
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