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A Historical Study of Early Modern Chinese Fictions (1890—1920)Travelers in Narratives

A Historical Study of Early Modern Chinese Fictions (1890—1920): Travelers in Narratives [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 traveler could be a free traveler or someone who was forced to leave his hometown. Whoever they were, they observed and discovered new things from travelers’ perspectives and thus created a specific sense of strangeness and freshness. Travelers of the novels of travelogue played a decisive function in establishing the holistic structures, the shift of narrative perspectives, and the new way of value judgment. It’s the more self-adjustment of Chinese novels to adapt to the challenge brought about by the introduction of foreign fictions than a simple imitation of foreign fictions.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Historical Study of Early Modern Chinese Fictions (1890—1920)Travelers in Narratives

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Publisher
Springer Singapore
Copyright
© Peking University Press 2021
ISBN
978-981-33-4888-2
Pages
169 –183
DOI
10.1007/978-981-33-4889-9_8
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[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 traveler could be a free traveler or someone who was forced to leave his hometown. Whoever they were, they observed and discovered new things from travelers’ perspectives and thus created a specific sense of strangeness and freshness. Travelers of the novels of travelogue played a decisive function in establishing the holistic structures, the shift of narrative perspectives, and the new way of value judgment. It’s the more self-adjustment of Chinese novels to adapt to the challenge brought about by the introduction of foreign fictions than a simple imitation of foreign fictions.]

Published: Jan 29, 2021

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