Xia Xie Fiction Is Wavering Btween The Tradition And Modern

This dissertation expound Xia Xie fiction such as Haishang Flower Biographies, Haishang Flourishing Dream, Turtle of the Nine Tails etc during the late Qing_Dynasty, which is the transitional fiction type. It declared the loss of classical aura and indicated the beginning of the modern metropolis atmosphere, therefore, It is wavering between the tradition and modern.First, Xia Xie fiction deeply rooted in traditional literature unfolded that a group of scholars followed the example of the celebrity in the late feudal society. Meanwhile, it inherited the prototype of the scholars wandering the brothel in the subject matter, and were seriously affected by the fiction of gifted scholars and beautiful ladies. Besides, it proclaimed the loss of classical aura resulted from the brothel in the literary sketches and sages, revealed the romantic imagination about the brothel dispelling, and the prostitute subverted the virtue of the traditional Chinese woman by means of earning the most profit in Shanghai flooded commerce.Second, the modern character of Xia Xie fiction exerted a tremendous influence on the modern emotional fiction and social fiction. The three fiction were originated from the metropolis culture, whose authors were probably the first scholars depending on the mass communication by the commercial writing. In order to attract the reader, the writers dedicated themselves to expressing the fashional and brand newly metropolis world, at the same time, these texts opened up the characters' inner paradox world vacillating between the East and West, the tradition and modern, city and country.These initiating narrative of Xia Xie fiction enlightened the Shanghai school writers.In a word, Xia Xie fiction emerged during the changeable epoch, therefore, it reflected the transitional traits, in other words, Xia Xie fiction declared the loss of classical aura and indicated the beginning of the modern metropolis atmosphere.