外国语从电影《刮痧》看华裔美国人.docx
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外国语从电影《刮痧》看华裔美国人
AnAnalysisofChineseAmericans’IdentityCrisisfromtheMovieTheTreatment
从电影《刮痧》看华裔美国人
的身份危机
LiaoGuiling
UndertheSupervisionof
YuanBin
SchoolofForeignLanguagesandCultures
PanzhihuaUniversity
May2009
AnAnalysisofChineseAmericans’IdentityCrisisfromtheMovieTheTreatment
从电影《刮痧》看华裔美国人
的身份危机
LiaoGuiling
UndertheSupervisionof
YuanBin
SchoolofForeignLanguagesandCultures
PanzhihuaUniversity
May2009
Contents
Abstract……………………………………………………………………………Ⅰ
KeyWords……………………………………………………………………………Ⅰ
摘要.…………………………………………………………………………….…….Ⅱ
关键词………………………………………………………………………….…......Ⅱ
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………1Ⅰ.AnIntroductiontoIdentityCrisis.…………..……………………………….…….2
A.TheConceptofIdentity...…………………………………………......................2
B.AnIntroductiontoCulturalIdentityandIdentityCrisis…………….…………..3
Ⅱ.AnIntroductiontotheMovieTheTreatment……..…………………………….….4
A.TheBackgroundoftheMovie.………………...………………………………..4
B.MainPlotoftheMovie……………………………………...………………....4
C.XuDatong’sIdentityCrisis…………………...…………………………………5
Ⅲ.ChineseAmericans’IdentityCrisis………………………………..……….…8
A.TheCurrentSituationofChineseAmericans….…………………..……………8
B.TheCausesofTheirIdentityCrisis…………………………………………….9
1.TheBitterHistoryofChineseImmigrationandUnfairTreatment…………9
2.TheirSufferingsfromCulturalDifferences………………………….…..…11
3.TheUnsuitableWaystoSolvetheConflicts………...………………….…..12
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………….....14
Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………….…15
Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………..16
Abstract
Recently,apieceofnewsfromChinaNewsNetshowsthatalthoughmanyChineseAmericanssignificantlygethigh-payingandstablejobs,andbegintotakepartinpoliticalaffairs,theyarestillnotfullyacceptedasAmericansandmostofthemarestillsufferingidentitycrisis.InthemovieTheTreatment,theidentitycrisisofXuDatong,amemberofChineseAmericans,isdemonstratedincisivelyandvividly.Thispaper,basedontheintroductionoftheconceptofidentity,identitycrisisandthemovieTheTreatment,aimstoanalyzeChineseAmericans’currentsituationandthereasonscausingtheiridentitycrisis,thuscallingformoreconcern,toleranceandhelpforthem,andsuggestthattheyreflectuponthemselvestofindbetterwaystosolvetheconflictsandgetoutofidentitycrisis.
KeyWords
ChineseAmericans;identitycrisis;TheTreatment;conflicts
摘要
最近,中国新闻网的一篇报道显示,虽然许多美籍华人在美国有着高薪稳定的工作,并开始参与政治事务,但他们并没有真正被美国人所接受而且他们中的绝大多数正经受着身份危机。
在电影《刮痧》中,作为美籍华人的代表,许大同所面临的身份危机被表现的淋漓尽致。
本文的目的在于通过对身份和身份危机概念和对电影《刮痧》介绍,来分析美籍华人的现状及引起他们身份危机的原因,从而呼吁人们给他们更多的关注、包容和帮助,并借此希望他们自己也好好反思,以便找到更好的方式来解决冲突,走出身份危机。
关键词
美籍华人;身份危机;《刮痧》;冲突
Introduction
ThepopulationofChineseAmericansaccountsfor24.5percentoftheAsianimmigrantsintheUnitedStates,andhasbecomethelargestAsianethnicgroup(ChinaNewsNet).150yearsago,mostChinesegoingtoAmericaonlyfoundlow-salaryjobs;nowtremendouschangeshavetakenplace.ManyChineseAmericansbecomefamousnow,suchasGaryLockeinpoliticalcircle,Tsung-DaoLeeandChenNingYanginscience,MichelleKwaninsportsandsoon.Chinesestudentsareamongthebestinthewell-knownAmericanuniversities,morethanone-thirdoftheChineseintheUnitedStateshavejobsaroundthemanagerialandprofessionalclass-levelandChineseAmericans’averageannualincomearemorethanthatofthewhites.However,inalargesense,theyarestillregardedas“foreigners”intheeyesofAmericans.Nomatterwhattheydoandhowgreattheirachievementsare,theyarelabeledasChinesepoliticians,Chinesescientistsandsoon,notAmericans(ChinaNewsNet).
ThemovieTheTreatment,astoryaboutChineseAmericans,hasbecomethefocuseversinceitwasshowntothepublic.SomeresearchersputemphasisonthedifferencesbetweenChinesecultureandAmericanculture;othersfocusonculturalconflictsandtheirsettlement,interculturalcommunication,orculturalmeaningofthemovie.However,inadditiontotheresearchperspectivesmentionedabove,ananalysisoftheidentitycrisisofXuDatong,theheroofthemovie,generatesmoremeaningfulandcomprehensivestudiesonChineseAmericansasanethnicgroup.
I.AnIntroductionofIdentityCrisis
A.TheConceptofIdentity
TheEnglishwordidentitycomesfromtheLateLatinwordidentitāsandoldFrenchwordidentité,andisinfluencedbytheLateLatinwordessentitās(meansessence).Sinceidentityconsistsoftheroot“idem”anditssuffix,whichmeansthesame,thisterminologyisusedtoexpresssameness,likeness,andoneness.Thebasicmeaningofidentityreferstothesamenatureorstateinmaterial,element,specialqualityandattribute,identityalsomeansthecharacteristics,feelingsorbeliefsthatdistinguishpeoplefromothers.
Asapopulartermintoday’spolitics,sociology,anthropology,literature,artsandpsychology,thecurrencyofidentitycanbetracednofurtherbacktothe1950s,whenpsychologistErikEriksondiscussedtheformationofindividualoregoidentityinhisresearch.Inhisresearch,ErikEriksonregardstheformationofindividualidentityandgroupidentityastakingplaceprimarilyduringadolescenceandearlyadulthood.Asidentityformationprogresses,adolescentsmakechoicewithintheconstraintsthatexistinaparticularcontext.Inotherwords,identityreferstotheintegrityandcontinuityofindividual’spersonality,hisvaluesandmodesoflife,andthisiscalledanindividualidentity.Onlywhentheconstructionofasocietyissimilartothatofanindividual’spersonalityorcharacter,willidentitybeacknowledgedincommunity.Thissocialaspectofidentityisassociatedwithcollectiveconsciousnessandsocialvaluesthatpeopleusuallyattributetosocialinstitution,suchasfamily,nationandwork,andinthissense,identityactsasaninteractionbetweenastableselfandastableinstitution.Thisinteractiveidentificationeffortbecomesthebasisofthegenderedinter-subjectivityofanindividuallivinginasociety(王光林2).
Ingeneral,identityemphasizesindividualdifferencesfromverticalperspective,whileitlaysparticularstressoncollectivesamenessfromlateralaspect.
B.AnIntroductionofCulturalIdentityandIdentityCrisis
Whenidentityisconcernedwithculture,itiscalledculturalidentity,whichmayrefertochangesbetweentherelationshipoftheoutsideworldanditsinherentcharacteristicsofacommunity(region,gendergroups,interestgroups,ethniccommunities),orrefertothe"cultural"problemsontheperformanceoftheindividuallevel.Culturalidentityisnotsomethingfixedandunchangeable,but“amatterof‘becoming’aswellasof‘being’.Itbelongstothefutureasmuchastothepast.Itisnotsomethingwhichalreadyexists,transcendingplace,time,historyandculture.”(王光林21)ToHall,identityhastwoforms,oneistheidentityofbeing,andtheotheristheidentityofbecoming.Asabeing,identityprovidesuniversity;asabecoming,identityshowsthefragmentationofidentification,whichmorevividlyrepresentstheconditionofChinese-Americanimmigrants.
Mercersays“Identityonlybecomesanissuewhenitisincrisis,whensomethingassumedtobefixed,coherentandstableisdisplacedbyexperienceofdoubtanduncertainty.”(王光林2)WhoamI,andwhatisthatdetermineswhatIamunderthesignof“I”?
Thisbasicquestionloomslargeinpresent-dayidentitycrisis.ForChineseAmericans,whentheyimmigratetothehostcountrywhichisquitedifferentfromtheirmotherlandandtheyarenotacceptedbythelocalpeople,theyfeelasenseofdoubtanduncertainty.Theybegintoaskthemselves,“WhowasI?
AndwhoamI?
”WhenaChineseAmerican“evenadmittedasacitizen,remainsoutsidesoftheculturalandracialboundariesofthenation,”(王光林13)hebeginstodoubthisidentity.XuDatong,theheroofthemovieTheTreatment,isatypicalexampleoftheChineseAmericanswhosufferidentitycrisis.
II.AnIntroductionoftheMovieTheTreatment
A.TheBackgroundoftheMovie
ThemovieTheTreatmentisdirectedbyZhengXiao-long,anditsscreenwriterisWangXiaoping.Theyareacouple,wholiveinAmericaformanyyears.Theoriginalintentionofthescriptcamefromamatterof1995aboutamarriedcouple.Thefatherunfortunatelyhadhischildfallintothebathtubandhurtthechildwhenhewastakingabathforhischild.Afterthedoctorcheckedthechild,theparentswerebelievedtodeliberatelyabusetheirchildbymeansofthrowandfall.TheChildWelfareintervened,andthenthecouplewereinvolvedinabiglawsuit,lastingmorethanfouryears.Afterreadingthenews,Xiao-longthoughtthatthiswasnotjustamisunderstanding,butakindofculturaldifferencewhichcausedthemisunderstanding,sohebelievedthatthiswasarelativelygoodmaterial,anditwasnecessarytoputitintoamovie,thenhebegantocollectthematerialsandmakeinvestigations.Inaddition,thestoryalsoshowsakindofdiscriminationwhichpresentsitselfasacauseofChineseAmericans’identitycrisis.
B.MainPlotoftheMovie
Inthemovie,XuDatongandhiswifeJane,immigrantscomingfromBeijing,havemadeextraordinaryachievementsintheirownbusiness.Asasuccessfulvideogamedesigner,XuDatonglivedapeacefulandhappylifewithhiswifeandtheirAmericanbornson—Dennis,aswellastheoldfatherjustcomingfromBeijing.However,whenXuDatongbelievedthathehadfulfilledhisAmericandream,somethingwhichseemedquitecommoninChinahappened,andinvolvedthemintoaridiculouslawsuit.
TheabsurdlawsuitiscausedbythegrandfatherwhousedChinesetraditionaltreatmen
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- 刮痧 外国语 电影 华裔 美国人