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I． 简况 A Multiculturalist Study on Walter Mosley’s Black Betty and RL’s Dream September, 姓名 Peng Zhuoli 学 籍 号 0612108 入学年月 研 2006 English English and 究 School of Language and 研究方向 American 生 学院 Foreign 专 业 Literature Literature Studies English 导 姓名 Zeng Yanyu 职 称 Professor 专 业 Language and 师 Literature Walter Mosley (1952-) is a prominent African-American best-selling novelist in 20th Century, whose series of Eazy Mawlins wins him the fame across the world. Meanwhile, this prolific novelist explores different genre, including detective fictions, science fiction and non-fiction. Mosley is also the nominator for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, nominator for the Golden Dagger Award, winner of the Shamus Award in America and the John Creasey Award, whose marverous works influences the former American President Bill Clinton so much that he acclaimed Mosley as his favorite mystery writer. The profound theme in Mosley‟s works is due to his great solicitude for the fate of not only the black pople but the whole marginalized ethnic minority groups, who, as a black writer, is no longer only put emphasis on the accuse of the racism, but the 主要 ponder about the way out of the problem on the basis of understanding the social 研究 reality. Via the close reading of his works, we can get the conclusion that the 内容 methods of solving the problem in socil reality is akin to the thoughts of multiculturalism, which can be found in the works. Prevailed in the 1990s, Multiculturalists think that American is a nation comprised of plural ethnic minority groups with different cultures, American culture is a cultural pluralism, that ethnic minority groups experience differently with traditional clutural American, so that the experience of a certain ethnic group can‟t be taken as American tradition, and that recognizing and confessing the rights of the ethnic minority groups is the reality American society should solve. Since its popularity, it has be applied in the field of education, history, cultural critics, and international relations. This thesis focuses on the analysis of Mosley‟s Black Betty and RL‟s Dream with its application in cultural critics. 拟定论文题目 2

As a result, from the perspective of the theme, the narrative practice and the politic thoughts, this thesis is to analyze multiculturalism thoughts in Mosley‟s works, which charges the inequable treatment from the dominance of the cultural hegemony and centralized politics, advocating the multiculturalism to smash the monopolization in thoughts and discourse. Then the multiculturalist thoughts are conveyed through the description of the theme, which include confessing the equality of the ethnic minority groups by emphasizing on their own history and heritage, admitting the interaction and the equal status of each culture. Finally, the combination of American literary traditon and Afro-American national tradition expressed through the narrative technique develops in the detective genre. This thesis consists of six parts: the introduction, the conclusion, and four chapters. In the introduction, the thesis briefly reviews on Walter Mosley‟s life and his achievement, the main idea of Black Betty and RL’s Dream, the development of multiculturalism, the current domestic and abroad research situation, the theoretical significance and the practical value of the research, and the general idea and the structure of the paper. Charpter one analyzes Mosley‟s multiculturalist thoughts through the depiction of the characters and the events, which is the idea of smashing the monopolized situation of western culture in thoughts and discourse. At first, it analyzes the behavior of the protagonists Easy Rawlins and Soupspoon in Black Betty and RL’s Dream respectively. Eazy becomes a part-time private detective due to the unemployment caused by persecution of the racism to the black in America, who has learnt the high-education courses by himself and is capable of speaking standard English, which are always concealed especially in the face of the authority in order to decrease the white‟s wariness towards the black. Mosley finds the clues, but only can the white detective who hires Eazy go to ask the white warder for the information about the whereabouts of the witness. Soupspoon in RL’s Dream is fired after decades of hard work without the social welfare he deserved, which finally returns to him by the dishonesty conduct of Kiki in the insurance company she worked. The forgoing are the depiction of the inequarable treatment that the black people suffer under the charge of the cultural hegemony and the centralized politics. All these convey Mosley‟s planning of exposing the social reality and his ideal solution to the problem that the dominator manipulates the nation in a white bourgeoisie dominated society so skillfully that the priority of the white deprives the black and other races of the rights of self-determination by the cultural hegemony, which influence the governed to admit the leadership of the white, whose cultural identity is also crushed by the abnormal cultural atmosphere so that they have to struggle for their souls. Finally, the description of Soupspoon‟s happy life with the variety of races in a village delivers Mosley‟s idea that multiculturalism can be the ways to be resorted to 3

seek for the equality of different racial cultures and the admission of their rights and identities. Advocating multiculturalism endeavors to awaken the self consciousness, promote the cultural status of the marginalized masses, and reconstruct the sense of cultural identity by overthrowing the white cultural values. Chapter two studies the ethnic identification in Black Betty and RL’s Dream. The core of multiculturalism is to confess the cultural diversity, to recognize the equal status and the interacting of each culture, and to smash the mode of monopolized western culture in thoughts and discourse. To confess the equal status of each culture is firstly to recognize that each minority group has its own rights for social identity, that is to attach importance to its own history and heritage, furbishing up its tradition. On the one hand, recognizing an ethnic minority group needs confessing the national identity, which can be affirmed by the country and social system. On the other hand, it also needs the affirmation of the cultural identity. Just like the imaginary community B. Anderson puts forward, who stresses the construction of the national identity in culture, which relies on the activities of historic memory and cultural self-identity conducted by the individual in the imagination, requiring the ethnic minority groups to memory the history and identify with culture collectively by the re-memory and re-definition of the ethnic groups about their own collective memory. The black housekeeper Betty Eazy Rawlins in Black Betty hired by a wealthy Beverly Hills family to find is the one who is deeply persecuted by the remained thoughts of slavery system in modern urban society, fleeing the family with her tenacity and intelligence. While in RL’s Dream, Soupspoon, after knowing that he has got cancer, decides to reture to the South he lived to re-experience his life and look for the blues traditon. The process of seaching in these two books is just the process of the black looking for the identity and the wholeness, which is the representation of the theme ----looking for the identity. Besides, the memories of Betty and Soupspoon are no longer their own memory, but the historical memory of the whole black people. Furthermore, South is entitled the profound historical meaning, the birth place of the ancestor, the cradle of traditional culture. The return to the South means that the Afro- American are not supposed to forget the past, but to keep it in mind and learn the traditon from the history so as to recover from the trauma and be mature in spirit. All of these reflect the heritage and the attention to the Afro-American cultural traditon displayed in the serious theme of Mosley‟s works to get the rights of being recognized the cultural identity. Chapter three reflects the idea of pursuiting the equality in race, class and gender by analyzing Black Betty and RL’s Dream. According to the theory Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg put forward in their works Changing Multiculturalism, derived from the Frankfurt School of Social Research in the 1920s, critical 4

multiculturalism focused on power and domination, especially concerned with how domination takes place, the way the inequality of race, class and gender are formed, the way power shapes consciousness. It is critical multiculturalism that Mosley delivered making us envisage inequable realities, concerning with the cause and effect casing the inequality of race, class and gender. Johnson was sent to prison unjustly by the white police with no reason. The Cains insulted Eazy and Betty freewheelingly. Betty and Kiki were raped under the oppression of the patriarchal society. Inspired by the importance of the economy in the society, Eazy tried to become the owner of the private estate to ensure the rise of the living condition and the status. Johnson is unafraid of the persecution from the authority, insisting on his own rights to get emancipated. A white woman Kiki realizes the absurdity of the whiteness, aspiring to the independence of the women. Chapter four analyzes the narrative techniques in Black Betty and RL’s Dream. It incarnates the narrative practice inherited from Afro-American literary tradition, combined with the application of the narrative practice in American mainstream literature, which are both set in the narrative genre of popular fiction. Through the integration of the forgoing, Mosley displays us the speciality of his works and his multicultural thoughts that America is a country composed of different nations and 主要races so that American culture is a multiculture, which is supposed to admit the 研究equality and the interaction among them. This chapter endovors to analyze how 内容 Walter Mosley applies equally and diversly his multicultural idea into his works Black Betty and RL’s Dream under the supervision of the multiculturalism. That is to combine the practice of Afro-American literary traditon, and the narrative strategies of American literature in the setting of the narrative genre----the popular fiction. On the basis of the narrative genre of the Euro-American classsic detective fiction and the hard-boiled fiction, together with Afro-American detective fiction, Mosley develops his own style whose protagonist is the black detective lived in L.A.‟s urban community in the 1950s. Then the heritage of Afro-American oral tradition, such as story-telling, and Afro-American floklore express Mosley‟s idea of carrying on Afro-American literature. Finally, the application of the narrative strategies of American literary practice, such as stream of consciousness and reader-oriented writing strategies, enriches the reader‟s understanding towards Afro-American works in the narrative genre of popular fiction in the new era. In the conclusion, the thesis restates the general idea and expounds the domain of further study. The key conclusion is that Mosley tries to communicate with the reader in a proper way and makes clear the social reality, rather than deliver his critic thoughts about racism or call on the reader focusing on the race issue, in order to express his multicultural thoughts, his concern with the masses in multicultural society and his ponder on how to solve the social issue. 5

Table of Contents A Multiculturalist Study on Walter Mosley’s Black Betty and RL’s Dream Introduction Chapter One Walter Mosley‟s political thoughts on Multiculturalism in Black Betty and RL’s Dream 1.1 The Rough Experience of the Marginalized Culture in Monocultural Domination 1.2 The happy Experience of the Marginalized Culture in Multicultural Eviornment Chapter Two The Ethnic Identification reflected in Black Betty and RL’s Dream 2.1 The Searching Process of Eazy and Soupspoon 2.2 The fatherly Eazy and Soupspoon Chapter Three Struggling for the equality of Race, Class and Gender in Black Betty and RL’s Dream 3.1 Eazy, Betty, Robert Johnson in fighting 3.2 The Free Betty, Kiki, and Homosexuality Chapter Four The Narrative Techniques in Black Betty and RL’s Dream 4.1 The Integration of the Detective Pattern in Black Betty 4.1.1 The Historical Development of Euro-American and Afro-American Detective Pattern 4.1.2 The Inheriting and Developing of Mosley‟s Detective Pattern 4.2 The Combination of the Narrative Techniques in RL’s Dream 4.2.1 The Practice of Afro-American Literary Tradition 4.2.2 The Narrative Strategies of American Mainstream Literary Practice Conclusion 6

II． 立论依据 II-1研究意义 Walter Mosley has published at least 20 books of diverse genres, such as detective fiction, science fiction and nonfiction, since his first mystery fiction, Devil in a Blue Dress, was published in 1990. From then on, we can constantly find his books in the best-selling list, some are even translated into more than 20 foreign languages, winning him the concern across the world and even entitling him the favorite writer by Bill Clinton in his lecture in 1992. Nowadays, he has been the winner for the Shamus Award in America and the John Creasey Award in Great Britain for best first novel, nominator for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for the best first novel of the year, and Golden Dagger Award in 1996, who holds now an honorary doctorate from the City College and has served on the board of directors of the National Book Awards. As the only son of a black father from Louisiana and a Polish Jewish mother, growing up in the white world in Los Angeles, Mosley has always been influenced by the triple culture like Afro-American traditional culture, Jewish culture, and American culture, which therefore demonstrate in his works. His mind is occupied with the problems of belonging and identity that attend the experience of black Americans. As a new generation of Afro-American, he manages to reflect his ponder over the identity, the unequality and the racism of the black in a novel way in his works, where he also resolves those by the advocacy of multicultural thoughts. Multiculturalism gradually flourishes with the launch of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, whose essence is to advocate the multicultural thoughts to supervise its social practice, whose core embraces two aspects. One is to admit that the different cultures existed in America are equal and will influence each other to seek for the equality of different races and nations, which holds the justice to fight against the racism. The other is to give a full explanation about American culture and American ways in recognizing the identity by eliminating the racial discrimination and achieving the national equality so as to take the western civilization off its monopolized place in thoughts and discourse. It is Mosley‟s advocacy of multiculturalism that strives for the equality of different races exactly finding its place in his works in two aspects. The former is about the politic thoughts, multiculturalism, reflected in his works. The depiction of the miserable life of the black or the marginalized masses in urban society reminds us of the realistic issue existed in the white world, and multiculturalism can ease the intension caused by the racism. The latter is about the practice of multiculturalism in his works from the perspective of narrative strategies, which integrate Afro-American culture and American mainstream culture in the setting of popular culture reflected in 7

the literary works. And the theme about the heritage of Afro-American culture expresses the sense of natural heritage of each racial culture, and suggests that the new generation accelerates the “collective memories” of their own culture on the basis of the heritage, which becomes the reason why the culture can be carried on. Consequently, the heritage of their own culture, together with the integration of the multiculture in literary works helps the reader grasp the speciality of Mosley‟s works and delivers Molsey‟s concern with the masses in the multicultural society, plus his peaceful desire for an equal and free life among the races in America. Few people have studied the African American literature from the perspective of multiculturalism, let alone the research on the presentation of multiculturalism in Mosley‟s works. To make up for the limitation, the thesis intends to explore the great significance of the multiculturalism, which is not only a way of demonstrating the structure of the fiction, but a means of delivering the author‟s concern with the social issue and his good wishes. And this research will enrich the study of Walter Mosley and his works in China, which entitle this thesis the theoretic and the practical significance. 8

II-2国内外研究现状（附中英文参考书目） Many readers‟ interests have been greatly attached to Walter Mosley and his works. But the study of the overseas scholars and critics on this prolific Aro-American novelist Walter Mosley is so rare that only some simple book reviews and literary critics are written for the analysis about his life background, writing strategy and style, the theme and politic thoughts. There are some critics making corresponding analysis to his different fictions in the perspective of western critical theories, such as feminisim, historical approach, deconstructionism, reader-response analysis, postcolonial analysis, postmodernism, new critical approach. Charles E.Wilson, Jr. is a kind of critics who makes a general study on Mosley‟s works and writes a book named “Walter Mosley: A Critical Companion” in 2003 to describe his life experience, the literary heritage expressed in his works, and then make a respective summerization of the plot, historic background, narrative structure to different books, plus the corresponding western critical theories. Mostly, Walter Mosley was introduced in some books, such as in The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches edited by Bernard W. Bell in 2007. In a book named Contemporary African American Novelists: a bio-bibliographical critical Sourcebook edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson, where Kristina L.Knotts wrote a biref introduction of Mosley‟s biography, major works and themes. And In Multicultural Detective Fiction: Murder from the “Other” Side written by Adrienne Johnson Gruesser in 1999, who collected “An Un-easy Relationship: Walter Mosley‟s Signifying Detective and the Black Community” written by John Cullen Gruesser to introduce the meaning of the black community in Mosley‟s detective fictions. In Dorothea Fischer-Hornung‟s Sleuthing Ethnicity: The Detective in Multiethnic Crime Fiction, Carmen Flys-Junquera wrote “Detectives, Hoodoo, and Brujeria: Subverting the Dominant U.S. Cultural Ethos” to introduce the idea of subverting the American mainstream worldview of Eazy Rawlins. Besides the books, there are many essays written by the scholars about Walter Mosley and his works. Some pay attention to the politics reflected in Mosley‟s works, such as W. Freiburger‟s James Ellroy, Walter Mosley, and the Politics of the Los Angeles Crime Novel in A Journal of Detection (1996). Roger A. Berger‟s “The Black Dick”: race, sexuality, and discourse in the L.A. novels of Watler Mosley in African American Review (1997). Daylanne K. English‟s The Modern in the Postmodern: Walter Mosley, Barbara Neely, and the Politics of Contemporary African-American Detective Fiction in American Literary History(2006). Robin Truth Goodman‟s Terrorist Hunter: Walter Mosley, the Urban Plot, and the Terror War in Cultural Critique(2007), etc. Some scholars concern about the comparison between Mosley and 9

other detective fiction writers, for instance, Mary young‟s Walter Mosley, detective fiction and black culture in Journal of Popular Culture (1998). Scott Bunyan‟s No Order from Chaos: the Absence of Chandler’s Extra-Legal Space in the Detective Fiction of Chester Himes and Walter Mosley in Studies in the Novel (2003). Mosley‟s blues fiction RL‟s Dream also attached scholars‟ attention and critics, especially about its blues, such as Christine Levecq’s Blues Poetecs and Blues Politics in Walter Mosley’s RL’s Dream in African American Review (2004), where the blues poetics in the fiction was thought to impire the southern pastoral life, while blues is applied by Mosley to express his discontent with the social situation and describe the hard life of the balck in America. Andrew Scheiber‟s Death, Transcendence and the Blues in “RL’s Dream” in Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies (2004), where he pays more attention on how RL’s Dream reflects and develops the blues in its more general definition as counteragent----as an aesthetic and philosophical response to historical and personal vicissitude. Still there were many scholars focusing on Mosley‟s other books, such as Devil in a Blue Dress: Power and Knowledge in Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress (2001) written by Marilyn C. Wesley. Since the 1960s, Scholars have gradually focused on the multiculturalism. Although many scholars wrote the books and essays on multiculturalism, such as David Theo Goldberg‟s Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader in 1994, Stephen May‟s Critical Multiculturalism: Rethinking Multicultural and Antiracist Education in 1999, much of the concern are on the fields of politics, sociology, education. These theses and the books offer the foundation from the aspects of the theme, writing style, etc. for the study on Mosley and his works. In the light of these theses, further research fruit can be tasted by the endeavor of contemporary oversea scholars. In contrast with the oversea researches, the Chinese scholars have done some researches on African American culture, some have been involved in the multiculturalism with the literature, such as Professor Zeng Yanyu‟s Towards Postmodern Multiculturalism: A New Trend of African-American and Jewish American Literature Viewed Through Ishmael Reed and Philip Roth (2004) illustrates the multiculturalism in the American society. But the scholarly examinations of Walter Mosley and his works in China are still in the rank of the blank, let alone the thesis and the books about him, where is remained as a treasure for us to explore. 10

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Lock, Helen. “Invisible Detection: The Case of Walter Mosley.” Melus 26.1 (2001): 77-. May, Stephen. Critical Multiculturalism: Rethinking Multicultural and Antiracist Education. London: Falmer Press, 1999. McCullough, Bob. “PW Interviews Watlter Mosley.” Publishers Weekly 23 May 1994: 67-68. McHale, Brian. Postmodermist Fiction. London and New York: Methuen, 1987. Miu, Xiaoyu. A Perfect Integration of American Mainstream Literature and American Black Literature----On Toni Morrison‟s Beloved. Fuzhou: Fujian Normal University Press, 2005. Mosley, Walter. Blue Light. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1998. Mosley, Walter. Black Betty. London: Serpent‟s Tail, 1994. Mosley, Walter. RL‟s Dream. New York: Washington Square Press, 1996. Mosley, Walter. Workin‟ on the Chain Gang: Shaking off the Dead Hand of History. New York: The Bhallantine Publishing Group, 2000. Pawling, Christopher. Popular Fiction and Social Change. New York: St. Martin‟s Press, 1984. Reilly, John M. “Walter Mosley: A Critical Companion.” African American Review 38.1 (2004): 170-171. Scheiber, Andrew. Death, Transcendence, and the Blues in “RL’s Dream”. Arkansas Review: A Joouranl of Delta Studies 35.1 (2004): Wesley, Marilyn C. “Power and Knowledge in Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress.” African American Review 35.1 (2001): 103-117. Wilson, Charles E. Jr. Walter Mosley: A Critical Companion. London: Greenwood Press, 2003. Young, Mary. “Walter Mosley, detective fiction and black culture.” Journal of Popular Culture 32.1 (1998): 141. Zeng, Yanyu. Toward Postmodern Multiculturalism: A New Trend Of African-American and Jewish American Literature Viewed Through Ishmael Reed and Philip Roth. Xiamen: Xiamen University Press, 2004. ----. “Remebering History in Contemporary Black Literature and Criticism.” American Literary History 3.4 (1991): 809-816. Fiske, J. Understanding Popular Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 19. Chinese translation: 王晓钰，宋伟杰(译). 理解大众文化. 北京: 编译出版社, 2006. McRobbie, Angela. Postmodernism And Populor Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Chinese translation: 田晓菲(译). 后现代主义与大众文化. 北京: 编译出版社, 2006. 伯纳德·W·贝尔. 非洲裔美国黑人小说及其传统[M]. 刘捷等译. 成都: 四川人民出版社, 2000. 潘一禾. 西方文学中的政治[M]. 浙江大学出版社, 2006. 陶洁. 灯下西窗—美国文学和美国文化[J]. 北京: 北京大学出版社, 2005. 陶洁. 美国的通俗文学与严肃文学[J]. 国外文学, 19(4): 1-6. 王松林. 论美国后现代主义小说的两大走向[J]. 外国文学研究, 2004(1): 91-96. 王希. 多元文化主义的起源实践与局限性[J]. 美国研究, 2000(2): 44-80. 12

II-3研究基础（研究生本人的研究经历及已有相关研究成果，校、系的相关资料设备） During the hard work in last two years, I‟ve taken many graduate courses in the relative field of American literature to lay a solid foundation for my further study. And in the course of the study, I have revised and renewed some of my assignment as the papers published in the periodicals, in which I apply the theories, such as the western critical theories, existentialism, postmodernism, psychologic theories learned from the courses took in the studies as the theoretical basis. And the books I read are also enlarging my literary knowledge from a different view, which are related in psychology, philosophy, American Literature, African American History and so on. Especially under the enthusiastic guide of my supervisor, Professor. Zeng Yanyu, and the above solid fundamental knowledge, I have already published two papers entitled The Charm of Personality, An analysis on “The Cask of Amontillado” from the Three Personalistic Structure. Thanks to my supervisor who recommended me the study of American popular fiction, which is still rarely in internal study. Accordingly, lots of books and papers, including the knowledge I learned from the courses in last two years, to some extent, have improved my research ability. 参与外国语学院傅婵妮2007——2009年主持的湖南科技大学研究生创新基金《创伤与愈合：当代黑人女作家盖尔·琼斯研究》。 13

III． 研究方案 III-1主要思路及重要观点 This thesis strives for the analysis on the speciality of Mosley‟s works through the heritage of the traditional culture in the theme, the politic thoughts reflected in the works and the integration of the triple traditional culture in narrative strategies. The heritage inherits and develops from Afro-American traditional in the theme is in fact the heritage of their own collective memories of different races. The depictation of the miserable life of different races by making an example of the black not only exposes the persecution from the centralized politics and cultural hegemony, but conveys Mosley‟s ideal equitable multicultural society. With the help of the multicultural theory, the narrative strategies in Mosley‟s works also display us a multicultural pictures, where Afro-American culture, American mainstream culture and popular culture integrate in literary works in its unique way, which is also the heritage of Afro-American traditon and Mosley‟s ponder over the fate of different races. III-2关键问题 1. The heritage of Afro-American traditional culture in the theme 2. The presentation of Mosley‟s politic thoughts, such as multiculturalism, in the narrative strategies of Black Betty and RL’s Dream----the integration of the popular fiction genre, Afro-American culture and American culture in literary narrative strategies III-3研究方法 Seeking truth from facts in Marxism is applied as the principle in guiding the specific process of the research. The thesis takes the combination of the theory and the texture as the guideline to gain the overall approach, collecting, neatening, reading and analyzing all the theses and books cross the world on Walter Mosley and his works as the methods to get a general idea of Walter Mosley, presenting the politic thoughts of pondering the problem of belonging and identity among different races in the theme of Black Betty and RL’s Dream as the foundation to analyze the integration of the triple cultures, such as Afro-American traditional culture, American mainstream culture, popular culture, in the literary works expressed as the narrative strategies. All these are more likely to express Mosley‟s good will of striving for the equality of the races.

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III-4研究进度安排 序号 工作内容 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 完成日期 2007.12 2008.6 2008.12 2009.1 2009.3 2009.4 2009.5 Resources collection and arrangement The 1st thesis manuscript Thesis modification and examination The 2nd thesis manuscript Final manuscript Thesis in print Oral defense IV． 研究经费预算 开支项目名称 用途 Resources Fee 金额（元） Thesis Fee The cost of buying conference 600 books and concerning files The cost of copying and printing 400 files The cost of resources collection 1000 outside The cost of publishing papers 2000 The cost of printing thesis 300 The cost of oral defense 700 total 5000 备注 15

V． 审查意见 指导教师审查意见 指导教师签名： 年 月 日 导师组审查意见 导师组负责人签名： 学院公章 年 月 日 16