Watching over the Ruins: War Writings and Spiritual Reclamation in Journal of European Chinese Literature

Journal of Integrated Cultural Studies

JICS   Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026, pp.185-192.

Print ISSN: 3105-840X; Online ISSN: 3105-8418

Journal homepage: https://www.icsjournal.com

DOIHttps://doi.org/10.64058/JICS.26.1.17


废墟上的守望:《欧华文学选刊》中的战争书写与精神皈依

 

刘红英(Liu Hongying),朱  瑶(Zhu Yao

 

摘要:《欧华文学选刊》(2021—2024)中的战争书写,以跨文化视角与日常叙事策略,对欧洲战争历史进行深入的记忆考古与创伤剖析。本文从四个维度展开论述:日常生活中的创伤烙印揭示战争如何侵入个体生命;旁观者的伦理审视呈现华人视角对战争忏悔意识的冷峻观察;被遗忘者的历史打捞将一战华工从档案数字还原为有血有肉的生命个体;漂泊者的精神归处探讨在时空交织中实现精神栖居的可能。研究认为,欧华新移民作家通过“双向凝视”的书写方式,将个体经验与人类命运相连,在废墟之上探寻精神皈依的可能,为海外华文文学提供了新的思想维度与审美范式。

关键词:欧华文学;战争书写;创伤记忆;《欧华文学选刊》;跨文化视角

作者简介:刘红英(通讯作者),浙江科技大学,教授,电邮:546517676@qq.com朱瑶,浙江科技大学,硕士研究生。

Title: Watching over the Ruins: War Writings and Spiritual Reclamation in Journal of European Chinese Literature

Abstract: The war writings in Journal of European Chinese Literature (2021-2024), employing cross-cultural perspectives and everyday narrative strategies, conduct an in-depth archaeological excavation of memory and analysis of trauma regarding European war history. This paper elaborates on four dimensions: the imprint of trauma in daily life reveals how war intrudes upon individual lives; the ethical examination from bystanders presents a sober observation, from a Chinese perspective, of the consciousness of war repentance; the historical recovery of the forgotten restores the Chinese laborers of World War I from archival numbers to flesh-and-blood individuals; the spiritual destination of wanderers explores the possibility of achieving spiritual habitation within the intertwining of time and space. The study concludes that the new Chinese migrant writers in Europe, through a "bidirectional gaze" in their writing, connect individual experiences with the fate of humanity, watching over the ruins for the possibility of spiritual reclamation. This provides new ideological dimensions and aesthetic paradigms for overseas Chinese-language literature.

Keywords: European Chinese literature; war writings; traumatic memory; Journal of European Chinese Literature; cross-cultural perspective

Author Biographies: Liu Hongying (Corresponding Author), Professor, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology. E-mail: 546517676@qq.com. Zhu Yao, Master, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology.



 Received: 10 January 2026 / Revised: 27 Feb. 2026 / Accepted: 02 Apr. 2026 / Published online: 30 Apr. 2026 / Print published: 30 May 2026.