On The Dissemination Of ShiShuoXinYu In The Yuan, Ming And Qing Dynasties

Shishuoxinyu (Following shishuo for short) is regarded as the masterpiece among the zhiren novels. With its highly artistic achievement and its unique style, it spreads widely and becomes the necessary book for the literati. The thesis dissertates the issues of the dissemination and reception with the concept and the theory of the modern dissemination, the thesis researches the dissemination ways and the dissemination effects, etc. This thesis draws the outline of the condition of the dissemination circulation and its characters in the total-new prospect and many angles. The whole thesis includes five chapters.Chapter One investigates the text dissemination. The text dissemination is the main disseminative forms of shishuo in the whole dissemination history. The focus of this chapter summarizes the track of the text dissemination after the publication of shishu. The Ming and Qing Dynasties are the main parts.Chapter two then will talks about the criticism dissemination of shishuo in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Novelistic criticism can not only guide readers, but also accelerate the speed of the dissemination and popularization of novels. As the first novel citicized in the cultural history, shishuo has attracted the attention of the literati, especially the critics. The criticisms from Liu Zhenweng, Liu Yingdeng, Wang Shimao, Ling Mengchu and Li Zhi these five people are the research objects. By analysing the characters of their criticisms, we can find out the condition of the criticism dissemination in the later generation and the time characters reflected in their criticisms.Chapter Three investigates the drama dissemination of shishuo in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Compared with the text dissemination, drama dissemination tends to more popularizing. The drama dissemination extends its readers from the literati to the common people. And it also extends its dissemination. This chapter will make a clear line through the adapted dramas in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. we analyse shishuo from the view of the drama dissemination and discuss the dissemination condition and characters of the adapted drama.This chapter will make a summary about the themes and the adapted ways of the existent shishuo adapted drama in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties respectively. Finally we draw a conclusion that: the adapted dramas in the Yuan Dynasty have an obvious common-people popularizing tendency, the adapted dramas in the Ming and Qing Dynasties tend more to the literati. The themes of"Jade Mirror Stage","Taomujiaozi","Zhaojun's Leaving the Han Border"will be taken to be analyzed in the condition of the recomposition in Yuan and Ming Dynasties and the time characters they reflected. So we can analyze the different cultural characters between the adapted drama in Yuan Dynasty and those in Ming and Qing Dynasties in detail.Chapter Four analyses the shishu style novels creation in Ming and Qing Dynasties. With its irresistible artistic power, its unique style and its narrative mode, shishuo influences the later-generation classical novel creation. A great deal of novels in the shishuo style appear. These shishuo style novels are not only the products of the dissemination of shishuo, but also take part in the process of the dissemination of shishuo. This section expounds the compilatory mode, content and artistic feature of the shishuo style novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Chapter Five treats the influence of the chapter fiction creation in Ming and Qing Dynasties.The chapter regards the three most famous popular novels of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Confucian Scholar's Unofficial History, A dream in Red Mansions in Ming and Qing Dynasties as representative, and puts forward the concept of the shishuo spirit. we will make a detailed analysis from the instance of the Romeance of the Three Kingdoms absorbing the theme from shishuo, the illustration of the shishuo spirit affecting A dream in Red Mansions and Confucian Scholar's Unofficial History.