论古而及今——伪满洲国的历史小说再检证

Stories of the Past that Connect to the Present:Revisiting the Historical Fiction of Manchukuo

在伪满洲国的文学研究中,即使有关于个别作家及作品的论述,把历史小说作为一个种类进行论述并不多见。但是在拥有悠久历史文化积蓄的中国,以这种丰富的历史典故为题材的文学作品对于五四以后的新文学也是有力的表现方法。尤其是在严厉的言论统治、不能自由表达的伪满洲国,是有效的欺骗敌人的表达手段。作家们以历史上有名人物及故事为题材,描写异民族支配下的中国人民的苦恼及悲哀。在伪满洲国,历史小说是值得重视的文学题材。

In the field of Manchukuo literary studies, although there have been discussions of specific works of historical fiction, the general body of historical fiction produced in Manchukuo as a genre has largely escaped scrutiny. China, a nation with a long history of cultural accumulation, has, after all, never been short of a literature of historical stories and following the May Fourth Movement, historical fiction continued to be a powerful genre in the New Literature which emerged as a result. In Manchukuo in particular, historical fiction became an effective mode of indirect representation that enabled the writer to evade the weighty surveillance of public speech and the heavy censorship exercised by the colonial regime. Many Chinese writers in Manchukuo delineated the pains and sorrows of Manchukuo Chinese people under the domination of a foreign nation through the rewriting of wellknown stories of historical figures or anecdotes. In a word, the genre of historical fiction in Manchukuo, where it bears a particular significance, calls for a closer investigation.