比较文学UCL申请PS

Personal StatementBy XXXI am writing to apply into the program of Comparative Literature at your prestigious university, believing that the study at University College London (UCL) would not only furnish me with world class know-how and practical ability, but broad my vision by experiencing a wealth of different culture and history. Moreover, I am fully convinced that the profound literary deposits and resourceful cultural heritage in UK would well prepare me to be an excellent college professor or professional in cultural research and dissemination, which is also the career objective of my whole life.Since I was young, I was obsessed with diverse vivid characters in Chinese masterpieces like Journey to the West, Romance of Three Kingdoms, and All Men are Brothers, etc. I spared most of my time in reading varied genres of fictions, novels, lyrics and history documentaries. The more books I read, the more fascinated I was by Chinese culture and literature. Sharing such cultural treasure with the outside world burgeoned in my mind since then. As time passed by, to be a cultural disseminator was haunting me again and again, which turned out to be more and more clear and tempting. In the last year of my high school, I chose teaching Chinese as foreign language (TCFL) as my college major and I succeeded in entering XX University, one of the top 10 universities in China. By virtue of my abundant previous extracurricular reading and diligent work, I achieved a GPA of 3.95 out of 4, ranking top in my class. Being cultivated by such a group of erudite professionals for four years, I was fostered to be proficient in both Chinese and foreign languages and literatures, learning fundamental cultural differences and the features of intercultural exchanges.However, the more I learnt, the more pressing I felt to continue my study, for I realized that understanding only the literature and culture of my nation cannot necessarily make Chinese literature and culture well understood, and there are occasions when I read foreign works I could not grab the essence of some phrases and idioms. I realized that language and literature might only be the carrier of a culture. The exchange of two different languages is in fact the exchange of two different literatures and cultures. In order to broaden my thinkings, I took the course of comparative literature and got the score of 87. During the whole semester, I have completed two projects: the comparison of girl’s image in Border Town by Shen Ts'ung-wen and The Izu Dancer by Kawabata Yasunari, and comparison of tragedy in Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Harker and Rickshaw Boy by Shu Ch'ing-ch'un. I started each project with quantity reading of the author’s works, background, and even his cultural intendancy and religious beliefs. For instance, in the first project, the author Kawabata Yasunari was deeply influenced by Japan Buddhism, while Japan Buddhism was introduced from China and developed differently. By participating in these two projects, I realized that in comparative literature studies, the valuable part lies in exploring the underlying culture, regime, value, religion, etc from the works. At the same time, a strong inductive and analytical ability to perceive the essence is equally necessary for comparative literature.Fortunately, the learning of this course gave me useful inspirations for my further study. Idetermined to pursue comparative literature so as to fulfill my future career objective. In terms of my understanding, comparative literature is an interdisciplinary subject in which researchers study the relationship between races, countries, literatures as well as other forms of art and ideologies by the method of comparison. The study of this discipline can be viewed as the research of diversified development features of different countries, regions and literatures as well as the exploration of inherent law of literature development and even human cultures. It is a feasible way for me to look into different cultural phenomena. Based on the literary works, comparative literature explores the history, presence and possibility of how people in various fields or cultures interact with each other, its inclusiveness determines that it can facilitate the communication of different culture, avoid conflicts deprived from cultural difference. In addition, the cross-national feature of comparative literature would expand my horizon to evaluate a culture, to acquire in-depth understanding of core cultural values so as to ensure the accuracy of cultural transmission. The openness of comparative literature would urge me to absorb the essence of other cultures while promote Chinese culture so as to achieve common cultural prosperity, which is in parallel with my future career objective.Moreover, for a student who has strong passion for comparative literature, the United Kingdom is a holy land with special meaning, just like Mecca to Moslem and Jerusalem to Christian. As is known, China has a history of over 5,000 years, in contrast, UK has the longest literature history in west countries, which can be traced back to the medieval age. During its literature history, numerous well-accomplished figures, like William Shakespeare, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in Renaissance, etc. produced great masterpieces and greatly prospered the improvement of world literatures and cultures. Many Chinese literary scholars like Ch'ien Chung-shu and Wu Mi also studied in the UK in pursuit of British literary and cultural heritage.University College London, along with Cambridge University, Oxford University, Imperial College and London School of Economics, are listed among G5 super elite universities and UCL is also one of the Golden Triangle universities. With its rapid development of scientific research, UCL scales up to top 10 universities around the world. As a student who is in fond of literature and culture, I’m convinced that the abundant literary and cultural heritage in the UK, the rich resources and distinguished teaching and research skills of UCL would enable me to fulfill my dream in my future endeavors. The Master Program of Comparative Literature at UCL is the next major chapter in the purposeful and explorative life I envision.。