Study On Women Revolutionary Vernacular Novel In Late Qing Dynasty

After the Opium War, China began to become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, with national sovereignty and territorial integrity suffering destruction. Moreover, the Japanese victory has greatly stimulated the imperialists’aggression against China after the Jia Wu Sino-Japanese War, which brought China into an unprecedented national crisis. Within less than ten years, being invaded by the Eight-Power Allied forces, China was forced to sign the Treaty of "Xin Chou", and completely reduced to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, becoming a part of the capitalist world system. In this case, a large number of patriotic writers urged people to join the anti-Japanese revolutionary. Among the numerous literary works, women revolutionary novel is especially prosperous.Women revolutionary vernacular novels in later qing dynasty mainly includes several aspects: First is the abolition of foot movements for freedom of marriage and love, the body of revolution. With the incoming foreign ideas, in many aspects of society caused different degrees of echo, The strongest echo is those oppressed women at that time, they strongly urged independent, self-reliance, promoted the girls at the time the revolutionary movement. Second is the female education revolution, due to the changes of the times, the topic about women education has been put on the stage of history, it become an important symbol in women’s liberation, which fully demonstrate women’s education is not an easy thing at that stage. Third is female’s social revolution in the Qing Dynasty corrupt rule, imperialism intensified aggression against China, country, nation is faced with a serious disaster. A person with the breadth of vision realized that only allow women to join the social revolution in the ranks, to broaden people’s horizons, we can realize the importance of revolution, can really save China, save the nation in peril.Becaust of its creation is a new field, the reflection of the thoughts clearly impacted by West democracy, equality, freedom of thought, so the novel creation of multiple effects. There are five reasons as follows. Firstly, the theme is positioned ahead, many women, such as Sophia, Feng Kui, and Huang Yi gave up their quiet life to devote to the revolutionary cause. The predetermined theme, is conducive to the creation of the plot, and is also helpful for readers to understand, which contributed to a better understanding of vernacular novels about women revolutionary in the late Qing. Secondly, using foreign story is useful for the readability of the novel’the theme. Besides, with different stories, plot and characters, people can understand the fact of women revolutionary from different perspectives. Thirdly, women revolutionary novels in the late Qing Dynasty narrative plot, most of them are relatively simple. And simple plot can help people understand the content of the story. Fourthly, under the influence of various factors, the women image in the vernacular novels in the late Qing Dynasty showed a typological characteristic. Fifthly, simple and vivid language in vernacular novels gave ordinary people a better understanding to the revolutionary story, and exerted a tremendously positive influence on people at that period. It was a conscious activity, and laid a distinctive brand of the times in the specific historical conditions and political needs.