Study On The Narrative Art Of Chinese Spy Drama

Spy drama is a kind of a historical legend operas which involve spy, suspense,intelligence exchange, feelings (love, family and friendship), torture and other elements.This type of drama is well presented with Chinese characteristics, which is very popularamong the audiences. Nowadays, watching the spy war drama has become a widespreadcultural phenomenon. Spy drama is a historical drama as well as a legendary drama,which shows unique narrative in terms of the choice of narrative perspective, shaping ofthe narrative role and the use of narrative strategy.Spy drama won the majority of the audience’s favorite for its suspense and colorfullanguage arts. Suspense with a quirky twist of the spy-war drama is the most interestingelement, which is as an important artistic means paving the way for the development ofthe plot. The unique dramatic language, the text language and the creative language inthe play are deemed as the "tools" for passing confidential information and coverture,which are involved with an atmosphere with tension and highly exaggerated effect.Intricate narrative structure is also a kind of unique feature in spy-war drama. Theintertexture of the surface structure and deep structure constitutes the complex narrativeclues.The audiences can find the inner link of complex clues in accordance with thesetting of the drama suspense, which is one of the important means to spy-war drama toattract viewers.Spy drama is not only a common drama but also a space-time combination of artforms. The flashback and Prolepses compromise the narrative time. What’s more, thescenes and the dialogue between different characters are the manifestations of narrativetime which has been spatialized. Physical space and psychological space are the mainspace types in spy-war drama. Base on these two types of space, the narrative space istimized. Due to the mutual transformation of the two types of space in the Spy-wardrama, the narrative way--“chronotope” is introduced to sum up the "chronotope"aesthetic function by analyzing the intersect node between time and space.