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A Historical Study of Early Modern Chinese Fictions (1890—1920)Compound Plot and Scenic Structure

A Historical Study of Early Modern Chinese Fictions (1890—1920): Compound Plot and Scenic Structure [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 fictions exist side by side with westernized types of fictions with mutual functions to each other. On the one hand, translators reform the overseas fictions from their own understanding to adapt them to the Chinese readers’ reading habits. On the other hand, Chinese writers try to learn from Western fictions to create fictions different from traditional Chinese fictions in plotting and structure. This chapter discusses four patterns of fiction plotting that had much affected fiction writing during the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republican period, and the ways in which they exerted influence on fiction writing of the time on the whole.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Historical Study of Early Modern Chinese Fictions (1890—1920)Compound Plot and Scenic Structure

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Publisher
Springer Singapore
Copyright
© Peking University Press 2021
ISBN
978-981-33-4888-2
Pages
99 –121
DOI
10.1007/978-981-33-4889-9_5
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[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 fictions exist side by side with westernized types of fictions with mutual functions to each other. On the one hand, translators reform the overseas fictions from their own understanding to adapt them to the Chinese readers’ reading habits. On the other hand, Chinese writers try to learn from Western fictions to create fictions different from traditional Chinese fictions in plotting and structure. This chapter discusses four patterns of fiction plotting that had much affected fiction writing during the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republican period, and the ways in which they exerted influence on fiction writing of the time on the whole.]

Published: Jan 29, 2021

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