Two Projects Approved by the National Social Science Fund

Recently, the list of the National Social Science Fund Projects for 2019 were announced. Tianjin University’s School of Foreign Languages and Literature was approved for two national social science fund projects.

It was the second time that Miss Gou Yanjun has successfully applied for the National Social Science Fund projects. This year, her approved subject is “Study on the Spread and Influence of the Sequels to the Ming and Qing Dynasties’ Novels in Japan”. The project will study the main sequels to the novels of Ming and Qing Dynasty (“Outlaws of the Marsh after the transfer”, “Added Journey to the West”, “Later Journey to the West”, etc.) in Japan in terms of their circulation, translation, imitation, and commentary. It aims to present an in-depth analysis of the unique literary attempts of Japanese modern novelists on the novels and sequels in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Guo Haixia’s project “Study on the Space Writing of Chinese American Literature and the Construction of National Identity” won the National Social Science Fund Youth Project. The main content of the subject is the study on national identity in Chinese writers’ works from the perspective of spatial narrative, with four generations of Chinese American literature works - the period of Chinese exclusion, before and after World War II, after the civil rights movement and from 1990 to the present - as the scope of study. According to the formal strategy and theme characteristics of Chinese American literature, in this subject, “Chinese American Literature” refers to “Chinese American writes literature works that reflect Chinese Americans” in English “from the perspective of Chinese Americans”. The most typical of these is “the works about the experiences in the United States and something concerning the country whose writers have both American nationality and Chinese descent”.

The National Social Science Fund Project represents the highest level of national social science research to a certain extent, and is one of the important indicators to measure the development of social sciences in colleges and universities.

By the School of Foreign Languages and Literature

Editor: Eva Yin