Nostalgia in Flux From the Perspective of Chinese Jia and Heidegger‘s Heimat

Nostalgia is the nostalgic subject’s reaction to the discontinuity of own identity. It manifested in the pain that one cannot return to his/her family. Over two thousand years
ago, Homer wrote down that The Odyssey is a Human (ἀνήρ) story. Today, movement is a pivotal concept to understand the modern world. Modern technology seems to make the obstacle no longer an issue. Nevertheless, there is widespread nostalgia in society.
Modern man can feel the same pain that Odysseus had endured and what Homer meant. Likewise, Heidegger and the contemporary Chinese suffered from nostalgia, especially both of them experience the vast changing of the social structure. Therefore, this dissertation firstly will study how their nostalgia emerged. Moreover, their different route of homecomings is the cure of their nostalgia in line with their understanding of the family. Thus, this dissertation aims to follow their way, thus exploring how they step on the homecoming to dissolve their nostalgia in flux. At last, by the cultural deviation between two nostalgic subjects, there is a conversation for both to have a better self-understanding and reflection.