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A Historical Study of Early Modern Chinese Fictions (1890—1920)From Romances to Officialdom Novels

A Historical Study of Early Modern Chinese Fictions (1890—1920): From Romances to Officialdom Novels [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 expounded it explicitly. On the one hand, they never had clear views on it and would readily change their views and danced to another tune. On the other hand, the varied views were too complicatedly infiltrated and entangled to be told apart. The perplexity that the late Qing writers had to face is demonstrated on the three interrelated contradictions between the old and the new, between Chinese traditions and foreign cultures, and between the orthodox Confucianism and the unorthodox Buddhism and Taoism. This chapter discusses the subject matters of the time that well reflect the perplexity of the writers.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Historical Study of Early Modern Chinese Fictions (1890—1920)From Romances to Officialdom Novels

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Publisher
Springer Singapore
Copyright
© Peking University Press 2021
ISBN
978-981-33-4888-2
Pages
147 –168
DOI
10.1007/978-981-33-4889-9_7
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[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 expounded it explicitly. On the one hand, they never had clear views on it and would readily change their views and danced to another tune. On the other hand, the varied views were too complicatedly infiltrated and entangled to be told apart. The perplexity that the late Qing writers had to face is demonstrated on the three interrelated contradictions between the old and the new, between Chinese traditions and foreign cultures, and between the orthodox Confucianism and the unorthodox Buddhism and Taoism. This chapter discusses the subject matters of the time that well reflect the perplexity of the writers.]

Published: Jan 29, 2021

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