The Further Discrimination Of Chunghua Novel Magazine's Mandarin Ducks And Butterflies School's Attribute

The Chunghua Novel Magazine started publication in January,1914,and ceased publication in July,1916.The magazine was published by Zhong Hua Book Company,and Shen Pingan was the editor.When this magazine published the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School was developing and rising.The editor of Chunghua Novel Magazine seems inherited the new novels thoughts of Liang Qichao to change the situation of literature world.This paper devotes to the study of the literature attribute of Chunghua Novel Magazine by comparing it with the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School novels.The second chapter concerning the publisher and editors,and summarizes the characteristic of the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School.The editorial thoughts of the publisher Lu Bikui who was the general manager of Zhong Hua Book Company and the editor Shen Pingan are serious.The contributor are complex,including the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School like Bao Tianxiao,Zhou Shoujuan,Xu Zhenya,but the most of novels they published on Chunghua Novel Magazine are not the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School novels.In addition,this paper induces the narrow sense and the broad sense of the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School.We choose the statements of LuXun and Shen Yanbing which are more representative,and the novels are wrote for recreation,and the most of romance novels are tragedies about marriage and love.The third chapter is on the thoughts and contents of the novels on Chunghua Novel Magazine.Social novels,military novels,diplomatic novels and political novels pay attention to reality,these novels are not Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School novels.Comic novels and detective novels focus on artistic charm.Most of creative romantic novels focus on marriage and love,these novels are Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School novels.The translated novels are different from creative romantic novels.The forth chapter focus on analyzing the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School attribute of Chunghua Novel Magazine.First,most novels in this magazine are translated novels,some creative novels are influenced by foreign novels,so the influence from western literature is dominant.Second,the most creative romantic novels are tragedies about marriage and love,these novels are similar to the the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School novels in Lu Xun's definition.