在中国抗战最黑暗的1938年,美国女作家赛珍珠因其对战时中国史诗般的描述、对中国民间反法西斯抗战的真实刻画以及其跨越遥远的种族距离对人类理想典范的崇高展望而荣膺诺贝尔文学奖。《龙子》作为其最杰出的抗战小说之一,吸引了众多赛学研究者从历史主题、叙事特征等方面进行探究,但鲜见学者从语料库语义学的视角来取证和解读赛珍珠笔下的中国民间抗战。本研究运用Wmatrix 3.0和GraphColl 2.0.0语料库软件工具,通过关键语义域和节点词搭配规律将赛珍珠的《龙子》与其相近主题的另八部小说进行了对比性语义分析,揭示出抗战动因、抗战阵地、独特战术和人物内心反思是赛珍珠构建中国民众抗战的核心要素。本研究探索的视角可助人们深化对赛珍珠及其抗战小说的解读。

In 1938, the darkest period in China's Anti-Japanese War, American woman writer Pearl Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize of literature for her notable works providing epic depiction of wartime China, realistic representation of ordinary Chinese people's heroic fighting against fascist Japan, and her great studies of human ideals passing over widely separated racial boundaries. Dragon Seed, one of Pearl Buck's greatest works on China's Anti-Japanese War, has attracted lots of researchers on Pearl Buck from its historical themes to unique narrative techniques, yet few of them have focused on the author's primary emphasis on Chinese grass-roots efforts in Anti-Japanese Resistance. With the help of Wmatrix 3.0 and GraphColl 2.0.0, the present study adopts a corpus-based semantic analysis of Dragon Seed with the comparison to her eight other similar works and reveals that anti-Japanese motivations, battle fields, tactics of Chinese civil forces as well as their considerations of the war contributed to Pearl Buck's great art of portraying China's grass-roots Anti-Japanese Resistance. The results shed light on Pearl Buck and her works on China's Anti-Japanese War.