Lost In Game And Morality

Following with war and war, the entire Chinese empire felt into an unprecedented crisis at the late 19th century. In order to rescue the nation and station, it became the common understanding of the late Qing dynasty's members that to reconstruct morality. Li Boyuan was one of them, and his double identities of traditional writer and modern professional writer lead him to an extremely unique attitude, both on his anxiety for the old morality's collapse and his demand for the new one. And his comprehension of literature was unique relatively."Game" was of vital importance in this process. In Li Boyuan's understanding, "game" inherited the tradition thought of literature, which consider literature as tools to convery the moral values and entertainment as the medium of education, but along with the newspaper joined in, the nature of entertaining and consuming, which were contained in this popular media also melt into the "game", which made literature both be tools and goods to him, and this cause his moral demand complex to. However, the influence is not completely negative, because of the nature of entertaining and consuming, Li Boyuan's moral demand drop from the scholar-officials to the civilian, and the new morality was sprouted.The article includes two parts. The first part takes "game" as the main attention spot, points out Li Boyuan's pursue of "game", and the nature of entertaining and consuming in "Game newspaper" and his series of condemnation novel, and taking this as an observation angle, distinguishes the relation between Li Boyuan and the "Novel revolutionizes" .The second part concretely analyzes the "morality" discussion in Li Boyuan's edition and writing practice. This article believes that, the moral attention of Li Boyuan has experienced a process from "prostitute" to "official", finally to "civilian". "Game" and the nature of entertaining and consuming has a close correlation with it, and as a result of this, Li Boyuan's moral discussion present a double standard, which certainly is one kind of lose to him, who took the old moral as standpoint. This kind of lose, lies on "game" and his professional writer status fundamentally. The process that Li Boyuan transforms from a traditional writer to a professional one is also a process that he lost in moral and game.