A Myth of History: Familial Relationships in Overseas Chinese Literature Themed in Cultural Revolution A Case Study of YAN Ge ling’s Novels

There are various interpretations concerning the creation subjects and features of overseas Chinese literature. However, beyond the confirmation with Chinese writers as subjects and Chinese writing as the way, whether the local life can become the subject of the overseas Chinese literature has been the biggest dispute. Anyhow, the local Chinese life will inevitably be endowed with striking foreign features under the pens of overseas writers. The impact on overseas cultures makes them have more complex historical views. Besides the memory divorced from the “pure” collective, there is another cultural myth of modernity, penetrating power and insight. And the spatio temporal environment of alien countries leads to their free expression which more or less has carved them with the identity of the country they live and cultural colonialism. And YAN Ge ling’s perspective of familial relationships in the novels themed in Cultural Revolution has profoundly reflected the special expression of such Revolution in overseas Chinese literature.