The last two decades have revealed new significance in the late Qing fiction in the transformation of Chinese literature,which has convincingly challenged the long-held discourse that a group of writers associated wit...The last two decades have revealed new significance in the late Qing fiction in the transformation of Chinese literature,which has convincingly challenged the long-held discourse that a group of writers associated with the May Fourth New Literature Movement in the late 1910s fundamentally broke with the literary tradition and became the forerunners of modern Chinese literature.This article studies the short stories published in the popular literary magazine Yueyue xiaoshuo(also known as All-Story Monthly,1906-9)and finds out that the narrative approaches adopted in the short stories are diverse and experimental,breaking from the preceding customs.While examining the narrative approaches in the short stories,this paper focuses on the aspect of focalization.Adopting the idea of focalization mode as an observatory point is particularly useful for discussing short stories in All-Story Monthly,because the diversified and flexible arrangement of observatory positions and the selection of the narrative information(such as a character’s appearance,action,and speech)to be presented are exactly crucial aspects in which the short stories display marked innovation or modification of the traditional narrative modes.展开更多
Originally derived from historical and philosophical writings, xiaoshuo is the modem Chinese term for fictional work of any length. However, how this term came to be used to translate the Western concepts of ＂fiction...Originally derived from historical and philosophical writings, xiaoshuo is the modem Chinese term for fictional work of any length. However, how this term came to be used to translate the Western concepts of ＂fiction＂ and ＂novel＂ is a question that remains to be fully explored. This paper focuses on Lu Xun＇s seminal work Zhongguo xiaoshuo shilue （A brief history of Chinese fiction; 1925） so as to investigate the ways in which the Western concept of fiction is built into Lu Xun＇s historicization of xiaoshuo. I argue that Lu Xun＇s articulation of xiaoshuo is distinguished by his emphasis on both the term＇s universality and its ＂Chinese-ness.＂展开更多
文摘The last two decades have revealed new significance in the late Qing fiction in the transformation of Chinese literature,which has convincingly challenged the long-held discourse that a group of writers associated with the May Fourth New Literature Movement in the late 1910s fundamentally broke with the literary tradition and became the forerunners of modern Chinese literature.This article studies the short stories published in the popular literary magazine Yueyue xiaoshuo(also known as All-Story Monthly,1906-9)and finds out that the narrative approaches adopted in the short stories are diverse and experimental,breaking from the preceding customs.While examining the narrative approaches in the short stories,this paper focuses on the aspect of focalization.Adopting the idea of focalization mode as an observatory point is particularly useful for discussing short stories in All-Story Monthly,because the diversified and flexible arrangement of observatory positions and the selection of the narrative information(such as a character’s appearance,action,and speech)to be presented are exactly crucial aspects in which the short stories display marked innovation or modification of the traditional narrative modes.
文摘Originally derived from historical and philosophical writings, xiaoshuo is the modem Chinese term for fictional work of any length. However, how this term came to be used to translate the Western concepts of ＂fiction＂ and ＂novel＂ is a question that remains to be fully explored. This paper focuses on Lu Xun＇s seminal work Zhongguo xiaoshuo shilue （A brief history of Chinese fiction; 1925） so as to investigate the ways in which the Western concept of fiction is built into Lu Xun＇s historicization of xiaoshuo. I argue that Lu Xun＇s articulation of xiaoshuo is distinguished by his emphasis on both the term＇s universality and its ＂Chinese-ness.＂
