Intercultural Context And Shanghai Narrative In Late Qing Dynasty And Early Republican Novels

By the end of the Qing novel interpretation of the text, in the level of exploration of the urban imagination and cultural construction, has become one of the research focus of modern Chinese literary field. This paper attempts to cross-cultural theory perspective, combined with the city of Shanghai in Late Qing Dynasty formed and presented worldwide to explore not only the end of the Qing Shanghai Urban Context and the text of the novel when it is docking and Analysis, and pointed out that the wave of industrialization and modernization of the formation of the intersection of Chinese and foreign cultures influence and promote the transformation of Shanghai’s modern. Moreover, the article also tried to combine the late Qing&Early Novels of Shanghai, pointed out that the so-called "cross-cultural" is not self-evident, and thus the thesis topic will be "cross-cultural context with the end of the Qing fiction narrative both tied, and not simply as a "cross-cultural" the existence of an established background style. The paper attempts to explore the penetration at the end of the Qing fiction narrative form and language in the form of cross-cultural elements, especially resides which formed a unique character, mode of discourse and morphology in historical reality between language and narrative structure corresponding to the social heart of the novel, showing how the image and form. Thus corresponds to the language and meaning, form and content, rendering and integrate, explore the city end of the Qing Shanghai fiction narrative language and structure type prominent collective/individual unconscious desire to cut into the body of the times and ethical entanglements, which pointed out that the era of signs/symptoms presented the show’s narrator and character/history.To achieve the above discussion, the problem to be solved is that the meaning of "cross-cultural" and point at the end of the Qing fiction text shown what form, and not only that, in the context of cross-cultural urban imagination the construction, it represents the end of the Qing novel narrative to try and formalize the process, which also demonstrates how urban Shanghai collective/individual unconscious and Time/main desire and ethical purport.Text is the first in the literature on in-depth reading and digging, many scholars have addressed due to the end of the Qing novels, then the strategy on the one hand is taken here in a new attempt on the theoretical method, that is, the introduction of cross-cultural explore the end of the Qing Shanghai narrative novel point of view, on the other hand is more text on the exploration and analysis breakthrough, or on a separate basis for discussion in the previous nothing new, or not enough or did not pay attention in previous studies note mining the text of the novel. In fact, the text of the late Qing&Early novels, especially the reaction of society in lengthy works in Shanghai, its historical dimension and social scope of the reaction is extremely broad, it touches the topic and its contents are not simply classified beyond culvert satisfied, so this article discusses mainly common type of arrangement of the chapters, but on the specific analysis with flexibility, so that not only help the clarity of the structure of the paper, without narrowing the rich complexity of the novel text itself.Introduction cross-cultural perspective, cut into the end of the Qing fiction narrative discourse and form type, pointed out at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the novel Shanghai generated by the new changes that in traditional Chinese ingrained hierarchical occurred in Shanghai, this time shaking originally unbreakable longitudinal level of consciousness, not only in the political sphere, and volatility in the literary/artistic level, the emergence of the novel can be said to be a loose hierarchy characterization; rather take internal level concepts and substituting, is the generation of cross-cultural phenomenon, this is a new change in the case of different cultures implanted, the end of the Qing novels had a very important influence.Chapter mainly condemn theme of the novel is the center of the discussion. Focused look at power politics and social crux of the end of the Qing fiction, pointed out that the novel be’beaming through the narrative language and formal structure of the so-called "strange situation","strange situation" and "the memoirs about often inter In this table, the two overlap at many be intercropped with a talk aims to point out the the "Xianxing" way of the Late Qing Dynasty Shanghai novel condemnation and reveal the social history of the "strange situation", That is how reality through the novel intervention,"shaped" to describe the "shape", and then touched the novel’s narrative discourse, talk strategy and ethics aimed to. While we look at the end of the Qing novels, in addition to the two focus on talking about the works, as well as "gentry Dong memoirs about" Business memoirs about "the business community the demon mind","nearly a decade of strange shape" in the subject matter is narrative in form, has much in common works indicated in the in the so-called "strange shape" how to "betray oneself". The second chapter is based on the center of gravity of the discussion of the smoke powder, or say a Courtesan novels. Mainly related to the smoke powder or in the late Qing&Early Novels of Shanghai said the courtesan novel text, of course, is not limited to, interpretation and analysis process, will also touch on other types of fiction, rather than stubborn single curing novel typed positioning. Take this discussion to include analysis of the following chapters. New morphology indicated by the "Shanghai Dreams", and its essence is a hollow and giant container can culvert satisfied desire, imagination and even hallucinations, and can even integrate meditation based on various factors, speaking and critical. Two structural forms there are inherent overlapping, which means, on the one hand, this coincidence marked the Shanghai dream two main oriented modern period; other hand, have become the modern Shanghai history and literature important characterization."Biography" in the so-called "Prosperity", in fact, is in the form of the late Qing fiction aesthetic expression.The third chapter focuses on the narrative form of historical novels. The main novel of historical fiction, or involves the end of the Qing History text relying not only involved in the official history of the social and political, but also emotional history, including the history of everyday life and the spiritual world. The main lyrical as well as by the main body to create a lyrical form, this is the end of the Qing novel drifted away from the actual situation, between subject and object, and through self with his nation and the individual, the history and the present, the edge and the center Word conversion, so that the tentacles of narrative can be an extension of the maximum possible, the historical narrative full and plump, and the main characters, shaped constitute the "mind" and "History".In chapter four novels about as the center, proposed urban Shanghai between all levels of society, there is often a particular program into the novel’s narrative track, which is certainly related to the historic mission this period novels who, but also to a considerable extent The land mapping out the end of the Qing Shanghai social status and cultural ecology. This trend reflected in the social division of labor in the modern city is increasingly clear that the process of social stratification in increasingly significant exclusion as well as all levels of cultural styles and thinking patterns and gradually form a solid down in Shanghai, the urban population in the class focused detailed sub sparse object of their cultural ecology and survival status will be beneficial based in the city of Shanghai combing them at all levels, so that not only the city’s appearance and the reality of modern urban development and the novels of fiction and imagination control, but also from Exploration novel speech before taking strategies and language forms.Chapter mainly involved in the end of the Qing novel ideal of an important theme of one of the science fiction novel, its pains and focus on the "odd", can be said to form a one-dimensional narrative. Such novels, on the one hand is based on the past and present of China, on the future of the world/China "to look forward to and build. Other hand, to erase the boundaries of time, from the real world and everyday life in the draw to leave to form a time beyond the Utopian ideal picture reveals which reflected the history of China, especially in the occasion of the end of the Qing awareness of issue born to unite in time to re-integration and re-thinking.Epilogue explore consciousness and the evolution of the concept of time in the end of the Qing novels, especially focused on the "now" and "future" indicated traditional Chinese, modern Chinese and ideal segmentation and associated, this reveals the late Qing Dynasty Fictional narrative voice and rhetorical form, especially in time should the Chinese on what historical turn toward what the future, thus germinal holds many lessons for the ideal China’s internal discords, together constitute the end of the Qing Fictional narrative’s inherent power. Summarized based on the city of Shanghai coerce the Chinese and foreign cultures worldwide factors that often Conceiving language fiction narrative structure, features and style of the code of rhetoric not only excluding simple thematic evaluations and artistic pros and cons and reveal novel narrative behind the pack, speaking to fold or unfold the logic and discourse strategies, narrative ethics, and the era of unconscious desires aims to form of structural characteristics.