The Study Of Communication On Strange Tales Of A Lonely Studio

The Shandong Zichuan writer ,Pu Songling ,who was born in the late Ming Dynasty and lived in the early Qing Dynasty,created many works in his lifetime and is famous for his classical Chinese short story collection "Strange Stories," . Pu took examinations for 10 times all his life and failed all the time because of various reasons except the first time when he managed to pass the examination. He lived on teaching and retiired after fifty years'teaching; he was upright throughout his life and never forgot to plead for the people in his old years." Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio " has a wide range of topics,all the persons from the elite government officials people to the naked poor people can become leading roles in this novel, which reflects all the aspects of working people's lives. The author integrated his political feelings into business activities and recording major events at that time. In ideological terms, Pu exposed the social evils and lashings by using humor words. In terms of artistic skills, Pu can melt through the history of adventure in a different cast and can create a surprise . This paper attempts to find the communication pattern of"Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio"by using communication theory from the author's life and creative background, the work's survey and communication forms before and after the twentieth century, to the work's spreading value.Discussions are given respectively in five chapters in the paper.The first chapter: Pu Songling's lifetime and the writing background mainly cards author's life to find out the formation and sources of literature works. The source of mass people's lives of Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio can be find from the experiences of Pu's failure in official rank, living hard in rural areas all the time. Persisting in obtaining official ranks all his life makes author have a deep feeling of darkness and fairness in official field, making many contents of his article related to the examination. Preference to searching stories about God and ghosts and the threat of literary inquisition in early Qing cause ghost and fox theme of his workThe second chapter : the communication researches on"Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio"before 20th century, mainly discuss works'communication ways and means are very single because of limited economic conditions of communicators before the twentieth century. Script and manuscript have constrained spreading regions and time while the expensive cost of block-printed editions limit transmission range. Although opera can be a convenient way of putting performances in different places, there were not many dramatic types adapted from Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio at that time.The third chapter : the communication researches on"Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio"after 20th century, " discuss the studies on Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio " reaches a spreading peak with the development of modern electronic technology and the the intervention of modern mass media including newspapers, books, television. In the early half of the twentieth century, the spread of works focused on the dramatic adaptations from the works, and various versions of the work's publication, and a variety of translation editions began to spread overseas slowly. In the later half century, with the improvement of people's living conditions, the writer paid more attention to the work gradually, and most people's contacts with Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio began with a variety of smart and adorable fox and ghost images appearing on the screen, and at this time people started to tend to read classic work popularizedly and simplifiedly.The fourth chapter : the communication value of"Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio"discusses literature, aesthetic, folklore and history value . With" Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio " spreading until now, the subjective reason of the beginning praise, then poorly mixed comment and now establishing the peak position of Chinese classic novels is the work's advanced nature of thought, content, performance methods, etc. and the objective aspects are due to people's knowledge improvement and the development of society and politics. The literature and aesthetic value of the works has been the research key point all the time in recent years. And the value in folklore and history has drawn researchers'attention gradually in these years,and some gratifying results have been achieved.