On The Time-Spatial Form Of《Flowers Of Shanghai》

((Flowers of Shanghai)) by Han Bangqing is the most valuable of the Late Ch抜ng Courtesan Novel. The artistic characteristics of his work displayed on the prosaic and natural style, the truthfulness of its figure, the mild and exquisite tempo of writings. This thesis attempts to make a probe into the Time-Spatial Form of the work, and inquire how the author made his rich and varied philosophy of life to be in finished form, to spread out a local conditions and customs of Shanghai in last era on the face of readers. The Time-Spatial Form of Chinese classical novel is the result of both national literature tradition and ideological culture tradition. It has an extinctive norm. To a concrete novel, its form is a result of both the deep concept of national culture and the specific demand of its theme or plot. The Time-Spatial structure form of ((Flowers of Shanghai)) is directed to the aesthetic structural idea of Chinese classical novel, to the traditional form of narrative history. On the other side, the structure govern the narrative procedure of the novel. And directed to the author抯 philosophy of life. The whole thesis has two parts. Part one focus on the time feature of the novel. The narrative start and the time frame established a foundation for the whole comprehension of the novel. It performed a demand of classical aesthetic concept for a hinted and explained structure of the novel. On the same time, the control of time graduation, time speed and plot density ii I ? give a sense of reality of the life sequence to readers. And the time arrangement of class and night just satisfied the enthusiasm of details of Chinese classical narrative aesthetics. Part two focus on the spatial feature of the novel. The author created a dream structure to paint the gist with void tune, then he use the rule of 揅huan Cba Cang Shan?to spread out a description of brothel life in Shanghai to readers. Han Bangqing inherited the splendid experience of predecessors, according to the theme and trait of the brothel life, and created a extinctive form of his own. The novel抯 form embodied structural aesthetics idea of Chinese classical novel, and describe an authentic natural tale. It抯 an exotic flower of the Courtesan Novel of the Late Ch抜ng.