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Birth of New Fiction in China

Chen, Pingyuan

Pages: 1 –17

[In the early twentieth century, Chinese fiction turned a new page with the literary movement of the so-called Fiction Revolution. Although the slogan of the Fiction Revolution was officially coined by Liang Qichao in his Fiction and Social Administration in 1902, the Fiction Revolution was...

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Inspiration and Simulation from Foreign Fictions

Chen, Pingyuan

Pages: 19 –51

[The introduction of foreign fictions into China and the consequent changes within Chinese literature were the driving force behind Chinese fictions in the twentieth century. It’s not easy for a “giant of literature”, especially so in the initial stage, to get rid of its arrogant self-isolation...

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Commercialization of Fictions and Rise of Book Printing

Chen, Pingyuan

Pages: 53 –76

[Cultural and historical development in the late Qing Dynasty accelerated the fiction revolution and pushed forward New Fiction spreading widely in Shanghai and other coastal cities. In addition to the common factors of the urban cultural psychology and the value system of the citizens, another...

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Swaying Between Philistinism and Sublimity

Chen, Pingyuan

Pages: 77 –97

[The confrontation and compromise between popular fictions and serious fictions (or experimental fictions, literati fictions, and sublime fictions) is undoubtedly an important force to push forward the development of Chinese fictions in the twentieth century. The genre of fiction had been much...

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Compound Plot and Scenic Structure

Chen, Pingyuan

Pages: 99 –121

[The structures of the fictions of the late Qing and the early Republic periods are quite peculiar because of the interaction of the writers’ personal artistic interest, the lapse of time as well as the fusion of Chinese traditions and Western techniques. The structures of the traditional Chinese...

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Coexistence of Classical Chinese and Vernacular Chinese in Fiction Writing

Chen, Pingyuan

Pages: 123 –145

[This chapter focuses on the stylistics of fictions. In the twentieth century, the stylistics of fictions became an issue of general concern for Chinese writers and literary theoreticians. The criticism of the theoreticians of the late Qing Dynasty on fictions concerned more about the...

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From Romances to Officialdom Novels

Chen, Pingyuan

Pages: 147 –168

[The late Qing writers were perplexed more than the writers before and after them. There were varied ideals of life and the society, but all of them were no more than blurred visions that were seemingly good but actually unpleasing. The writers roughly knew what they were longing for, but never...

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Travelers in Narratives

Chen, Pingyuan

Pages: 169 –183

[This chapter studies travelers’ function in narratives. Personages in these fictions were often on the move with changing settings. They may be caused by war migration, diplomatic missions, overseas studies, international trades, service export, or by writers’ conscious artistic pursuit. The...

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Documentation, Condemnation, and Sentimentality

Chen, Pingyuan

Pages: 185 –199

[This chapter further clarifies the relationship between Chinese culture and the influence from the introduction of foreign fictions. In the author’s opinion, during the reformative stage of the late Qing and the early Republican periods, new Chinese fictions had never slipped the leash of the...

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