ABSTRACT

This article asks how the distinctive use of life-writing and focus on inter-ethnic intimacy in Han Suyin’s popular middlebrow romance fictions A Many-Splendoured Thing (1952) and The Mountain is Young (1958) constitute a critique of decolonization and align with her radical politics as a spokesperson for Bandung-era non-alignment. The author suggests that in these two major fictions of the Cold War era Han reprises what Christina Klein identifies as a familiar “Cold War Orientalist” trope of inter-ethnic love but repurposes it so that the genre’s characteristic objectifying treatment of (largely passive) Asian women desired by western men is reversed. In the process Han’s tactical re-imagining of inter-ethnic romance provides a vehicle for political satire, feminist self-realization, and figuring of new postcolonial/decolonial identities and subject positions.

摘要

本文探讨了在韩素音流行的中庸浪漫小说《万物有灵》（1952年）和《山是年轻》中，生活写作的独特用法以及如何关注族裔间的亲密关系。（1958）构成对非殖民化的批评，并与她作为万隆时代不结盟发言人的激进政治相吻合。作者认为，在冷战时代的这两部主要小说中，汉族对克里斯蒂娜·克莱因（Christina Klein）所认同的种族间爱的“冷战东方主义者”论调进行了改头换面，但重新利用了这一点，从而使这一体裁具有特色地客观对待（主要是消极的）亚洲人。西方男人所渴望的女人是相反的。在此过程中，汉对种族间浪漫主义的战术重塑为政治讽刺，女权主义者的自我实现以及确定新的后殖民/后殖民身份和主题地位提供了一种手段。