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The Sexual Conflict Relationship And The Occurrence Of Modern Chinese Comedy

Posted on:2015-08-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q R WuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330485490496Subject:Drama
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The occurrence of modern Chinese comedy, associated with sexual conflict relationship. In the 1920s, the first modern Chinese comedy "for life" (1919) can also be regarded as the first drama literature of Chinese new literature. Over the last ten years, from this comedy to "after screen" (1929) by Ou Yang Yu Qian, there are a lot of comedy treating sexual conflict as the main line, or regard the old and new sexual morality conflict as the background to extend the contradiction collision. This is an important phenomenon worthy of attention and discussion. Why so? How the sexual conflict contact with the rise of modern Chinese comedy? This is what this article would discuss.Sexual conflict is an vital part of Chinese modern comedy in the 1920s. The created sexual conflict caused by the difference among gender, status and ideas reflects the substance of comedy conflict. In performance forms, it often appears as two kinds of conflict patterns:One is seniority conflict due to sexual difference reflected in some love comedy, such as "for life", "a hornet", "mutiny". they stand for the contradiction that the youth fight with the unfree society and unreconstructed feudalism for marriage freedom. Actually speaking, the seniority conflicts is caused and developed by sexual conflict, which is one of the important reasons that Chinese modern comedy occurs. Another conflict model regards the sexual conflict directly as the plotline of the drama conflict, deliver the difference of ideology and morality through a batch of earliest Chinese comedy, such as "bitch", "home" and "after screen". Sometimes, the comedy which shows the sexual conflict also accompanies by the seniority conflicts. What they satirize are the male with stubborn feudal ethics, moral degeneration or obsolete heart, and the women who pursue individuality liberation, personality independence, or have been damaged in male-dominated society.Because of the sexual conflict, modern Chinese comedy originated.The first breakthrough is made in the reflection of the sexual conflict and welcome the first summit of the creation of Chinese modem comedies has its profound reason. That is in the 20 s of the 20th century is the key to China’s social transition from traditional to modern times, the conflict between old and new ideas is very intense, new culture replaced the old culture and new moral replaced the old moral. It is the transformation of the old and the new concept that contributed to the occurrence of modern comedy.Modern Chinese comedy’s occurrence has a deeply relationship with the sexual conflict in the transition period of Chinese social history. So, modern Chinese comedy, born with new characters, has established with the modern sense of body awareness, cultural connotation and aesthetic form. The difference between modern Chinese comedy and traditional Chinese comedy is also reflected in the modern consciousness manifested by sexual conflict.Modern Chinese comedy in the 1920s represents some distinctive characteristics: the autonomous young generation has become the main target of comedy performance; Modern Chinese comedy reflects conflicts in marriage through a modern sense of freedom and equality, which bring the sexual conflict in modern comedy with new characters.In 1920s, of all the books of Chinese modern comedy sexual conflict, there exsit obvious limitations in image creating, story setting and application of comedy skills. The details are:the conceptualization of character image, thought is greater than the image; The set of the plot is modeled; Attaches great importance to taste, and it is not conducive to comic art taste of ascension.
Keywords/Search Tags:the 1920s, sexual conflict, comedy, occurrence
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