The Historical Medium Of Poetry-cultivation Tradition: Liang-Qichao And The Genesis Of Modern Chinese Literary Enlightenment Discourse

This dissertation focuses its attention on the study of the genetic relationshipbetween the theories and practice of Liang Qi-chao's "XinMin" literary enlightenmentand modern Chinese literary enlightenment discourse. In view of the overall culturalvision of Liang Qi-chao's political enlightenment, the dissertation discusses how Lianginfluences the occurrence of modern Chinese literary enlightenment discourse throughhis discourse logic, discourse pattern, discourse connotation and discoursevalue-orientation, which Liang used literature as enlightenment means. Its main aim isto unveil the inner cultivation logic of modern Chinese literary enlightenment discourseand establishes the important significance of the literary enlightenment discourse ofLiang Qi-chao as the historical medium of Poetry Cultivation tradition from ancient tomodern.This dissertation includes two parts. Part1(Chapter1,2) generally studies theinfluence of Liang Qi-chao's thought of "XinMin" on the establishment of the discourselogic of modern Chinese cultural and literary enlightenment. Part2(Chapter3,4,5)implements concrete levels to discuss the genetic significance of discourse formationsof Liang's novel theory, stylistic innovations of newspapers, and construction ofconcept of "Chinese Literature" to the discourse patterns of literary movement, apopular value-oriented discourse and discourse connotation taking the nation as the corein the modern Chinese literary enlightenment. The premise that Liang's literaryenlightenment discourse was the concrete practice of his political enlightenmentdiscourse constitutes the interpretation framework of this dissertation.The conclusion of this paper is that Liang Qi-chao's literary enlightenmentdiscourse of "XinMin" establishes the basic mode of modern Chinese literaryenlightenment discourse, which is of paradigm significance in the transformation ofancient and modern Chinese knowledge. However, this paradigm shift was not therupture of tradition, but the modern interpretation of the traditional literati cultivatinglogic and its extension of the classical Poetry-Cultivation thoughts. To establish aparadigm of reinterpreting tradition is Liang Qi-chao's contribution to the modernChinese aesthetic discourse.