Imagine The Way Of Modern China

In China of the late 19th century, the Chinese people get deeply into anxietyas a whole, in the pain of destruction of tradition and oppression of others. Atthat time, in contrast with dynasty-state, the narrative of nation-state finallyrises as a modern event, which symbolizes modern times beginning in the oldland of China. As an important means participating in the grand narrative,novel gets its own modernity from the rise, and reveals the process of modernChinese nation-state narrative in its own way.From three dimensionalities of the rise of nation-state narrative, the doublecombination of the nation-state (enlightening and saving of the nation) and theaesthetical tendency of nation-state narrative, the paper tries to outline thegeneral change of nation-state narrative in modern Chinese literature from theperspective of novel, and reveal how the novel goes under the regulation of thehuge discourse system of state-nation as well.