Stories Study Of Espionage Series In Mainland China

Stories of espionage series, which usually focus on spying activities and show striking conflict, often occurs before the foundation of PRC. Most of these stories are written in such a narrative pattern, namely the adventure mode in which the justice are in the dark while the evils are in the light. Each of these espionage stories is much more different from the others, but the concept which gives an account of the heroes or heroines the experience of test, sacrifice and love is similar and also becomes the specific characteristic of such series. The paper will take three sets of series as object and makes a study from the story of theory of narratology. In the first place, it will analyze the structure of these series from the designed characters, stories order and action units. Then it will talk about the reasons for the formations of these story characteristics based on the theories of sociology and culture. According to the analysis above, it will discover the values hidden deeply in the stories and at last evaluate them based on their narration, aesthetics and ideas.Testing story is the main stem. It can be found that the testing stories of heroes/heroines often take a large scale in the whole story. Once confronted with tests, the heroes/heroines are passive and they have to take actions. At that moment, they will take the missions and pass the tests brilliantly. The tests of these spying series mainly comes from the villains. Usually, the most significant test is the doubt of the villains on the heroes/heroines, which means the heroes/heroines must try their best to gain the villain’s trust. The essence of these tests is to conflict with the villains through which the stories are made to take place fluently. In the construction of spying stories, the myth of the identity, the feeling of the games and the heroes complex are important points to fascinate viewers. Of course, there are some other points to think over, such as the violence-cheating living rule and ideological conflicts.Sacrifice stories are serious issue in such series, which conclude the main idea of espionage stories. They often take place when the heroes/heroines cannot conceal their real identity from tests. They can be seen as cut-tail-to live or the worship of belief. The format is relatively the same as the test stories, but the concept of these two types of stories is definitely different. For the heroes/heroines, compared with tests, the heroes/heroines choose the sacrifice, not like the test choosing the heroes/heroines, so in the sacrifice stories, the author’s moral and valued judgment and the hero’s/heroine’s spirit and belief are shown. The conflict of sacrifice stories often happens in the hero’s/heroine’s mind, which deepens the atmosphere of tragedy. Sacrifice means the heroes/heroines give up their lives to lift their morals, which includes nationalism, collectivism and heroism and makes viewers touched. That is why sacrifice stories become the code of mainstream culture and the celebrity culture. It is worthwhile to note that when sacrifice stories are made, conflict and alienation also exist, such as the lack of belief and amusing unduly.Love stories are subordinate in spying series, but an important side-line. This kind of stories usually shows the hero’s/heroine’s emotion and the heroes/heroines in love stories usually shown their tenderness and human nature. It makes the whole spying stories more integrate. Compared other love stories, the ones in spying series have some specific features which mainly hide in the conflict between love and mission. On one hand, the mission makes love to come into being. On the other hand, love is often stifled by the mission. It makes love in spying stories to have some function of metaphor. Love stories take place with the development of tests and sacrifice, in which the revolution ethics and emotion ethics are combined into one. Besides, love stories fall into the body and emotion consumption. Viewing from feminism, male-lead narrative strategies of gender can be found in stories.