Sun Kai First Novel Study

From the view of the fiction research history, this article tries to make a survey of Sun Kaidi and his fiction theory. Three specific aims are proposed here. Firstly, some research is done on Sun Kaidi's academic life and a thorough inquiry is made of his development course; associated with the cultural background of the early 21st century, this article researches Sun Kaidi, as well as the scholars around him so that we can see the relationship between Sun Kaidi and the academic circles. Secondly, the article reviews Sun Kaidi's main academic achievements in popular fiction's research. Sun Kaidi is the founder of Chinsee popular fiction Bibliography, and this article pays attention to his Bibliography at first, analyzes his academic achievements, and then discusses his relationship with the history of Bibliography's development before and after. This article does research on his other achievements in the form of special topic. Thirdly, this article summarizes Sun Kaidi's academic methods and academic thoughts.Based on the above research aims, this article consists of six chapters. The first chapter is introduction, which discusses the research background and present research situations. In this part, the development of the fiction research history is analyzed, and the significance of research on Sun Kaidi, the summary of Sun Kaidi's works and current research conditions are also mentioned. The second chapter is "Sun Kaidi's academic life", which discusses his experiences of academic research, including five stages:"before university", "period of preparation", "period of foundation", "period of extension", "period of summary". The third chapter is "Sun Kaidi and the scholars around him". This part first discusses the cultural background at that time, including the improvement of fiction's status, and the course of fiction's becoming a new science category. This part also pays attention to the following eight scholars:Fu Zengxiang, Hu Shi, Qian Xuantong, Yang Shuda, Li Jinxi, Ma Lian, Zheng Zhenduo, Chen Yuan etc, because they had close relationship with Sun Kaidi. In the article, the academic relationship between them is discussed. The fourth chapter is "Sun Kaidi's fiction bibliography research". The fiction bibliography is one of Sun Kaidi's main achievements, This chapter discusses the edit conditions before The Bibliography of Chinese Popular Fiction, the edit course and amendment of The Bibliography of Chinese Popular Fiction, the main achievements and features of The Bibliography of Chinese Popular Fiction, and the academic circles'complement. The fifth Chapter is topic research, including the following three aspects:the research on the novelists, the research on fiction origin, and the research on Sun Kaidi's idea of Chinese fiction history. The sixth chapter summarizes Sun Kaidi's academic methods and thoughts. The final Chapter discusses Sun Kaidi's status and effect in the history of Chinese fiction research, and summarizes the whole article.The innovations of this article embodies in the following aspects:Firstly, in the history of Chinese fiction research, the past academic achievements often existed in the discussion of the composition, the topic, the special fiction, and the special dynasty, while on the other hand, the research on scholars, which has made great contributions to the academic development, is not concentrated but dispersed. This article focuses on the Sun Kaidi, who has made great achievements in the field of popular fiction, trying to show him and other related academic development. Next, Sun Kaidi's academic achievements lie in many aspects. This article concludes and analyzes his main academic contributions, trying to show his academic value. Thirdly, this article concludes Sun Kaidi's academic methods and academic thoughts, which not only reflects Sun Kaidi's academic characteristics, but also provides some reference for the thorough development of academic research.