书写差异:林语堂同一作品在中美的不同策略

Writing Difference:LIN Yu-tang's Different Strategies in China and America for his same Work

林语堂1936年离开上海,开始了30年的海外创作生涯。他连续在美国出版《吾国与吾民》、《生活的艺术》、《瞬息京华》等畅销书,名震一时。但是林语堂的英文写作,早在1927年就开始了,而且有些作品先在中国出版,后在美国再版。通过比较分析这两个文本在文化方面内容的处理差异,探讨林语堂面对不同语境、不同读者时所采取的不同写作策略,以及该策略对当今的华裔文学研究、汉英翻译研究和跨文化研究的意义,可以看出,林语堂的作品在中美的差异主要体现在写作技巧上,而非写作题材上。

Abstract： LIN Yu-tang started his writing career abroad since 1936 when he left Shanghai. He was very famous in America due to series of best sellers such as My Country and My People, The Importance of Living, and Moment in Peking. But early in 1927, Lin started writing English essays, some of which were first published in China, later in America. By comparing the differences in dealing cultural content between two versions of the same essay or book, this paper tends to discuss LIN＇s different strategies in different contexts and readerships and its significance for present Chinese foreign literature, Chinese-English translation and crossculture research. Finally, contrary to YIN Xiaohuang＇s conclusion in Chinese American Literature since the 1850s, the author draws the different conclusion that the differences between the two versions in China and America of his work lie mainly in writing skill, not in subject matter.