Hovering between Human and Beast : Zhong Dao Dun’s Novel and the Survival Circumstances of Japanese during World War II

It seems that Zhong Dao Dun’s novel has no connection with the reality. However, it never gets away from survival circumstances of Japanese during World War II from beginning to the end. His early works reveals that he quite worries extreme expansion of the Japanese’s scramble desire. He deeply criticizes alienation and massacre caused by the expansion of scramble desire based on borrowing from the Europe and the United States modernist literature, and explores a spiritual way-out of the Japanese nation in the condition of nearly despair. Finally, Zhong Dao Dun puts forward the view of the honorable rewards of industrious endeavors for the nation, the shooting of not shooting and views that the philosophy (realm of life) will definitely bring Japanese with an unsophisticated and harmonious environment in his last masterpiece, Celebrity Biography. Zhong Dao Dun’s novel is not only a metaphysical exploration for the individual life value, but also a examine of Japan national spirit during World War II.It passes pair of China Taoist story tells the Japanese people that the real strong is not arrived by compete and war, but peace and non-action.