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A Historical Study of Early Modern Chinese Fictions (1890—1920)Commercialization of Fictions and Rise of Book Printing

A Historical Study of Early Modern Chinese Fictions (1890—1920): Commercialization of Fictions... [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 two factors of political turbulence and the implement of the new-styled education also drove the development of fictions in the late Qing Dynasty. The former, being the main force, directly caused the slogan of “fiction revolution” while the latter have hatched batches of writers as well as readers of New Fiction who helped the classic Chinese fictions to be transformed to the modern types. Among all the factors that regulated the trend of New Fiction, the most important one is the commercialization of fictions that spurred the rise of book printing, which is the focus of this chapter.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Historical Study of Early Modern Chinese Fictions (1890—1920)Commercialization of Fictions and Rise of Book Printing

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Publisher
Springer Singapore
Copyright
© Peking University Press 2021
ISBN
978-981-33-4888-2
Pages
53 –76
DOI
10.1007/978-981-33-4889-9_3
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[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 two factors of political turbulence and the implement of the new-styled education also drove the development of fictions in the late Qing Dynasty. The former, being the main force, directly caused the slogan of “fiction revolution” while the latter have hatched batches of writers as well as readers of New Fiction who helped the classic Chinese fictions to be transformed to the modern types. Among all the factors that regulated the trend of New Fiction, the most important one is the commercialization of fictions that spurred the rise of book printing, which is the focus of this chapter.]

Published: Jan 29, 2021

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