China Social Science Review

No.2, 2023

Development of the Overseas Chinese Literature Discipline from the Perspective of Literary Canonization

(Abstract)

Huang Wanhua

As the teaching and research of overseas Chinese literature in the Chinese mainland enters its 41st year, it is facing an excellent chance and an important juncture for the development and construction of the discipline, and “literary canonization” is still an extremely important subject for the development and construction of the discipline. The exemplary telling of the story of “China and the world” in different historical contexts, the ontologization of Chinese national and local resources in the wandering life, and the aesthetic search for and expression of the “human community with a shared future” in various historical contexts have all become important processes in the accumulation of the canon of overseas Chinese literature. In this way, we can expand and deepen the value scale of the canonical construction of overseas Chinese literature, which is enlightening for the canonization of modern and contemporary Chinese language literature.