The Narrative Of The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom In The Historical Novels Of 1980s To 1990s

As the largest peasants' war in Chinese history,the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement not only led to the decline of the Qing Dynasty,but also accelerated the profound transformation of the agricultural society,which lasted for thousands of years,from a traditional society to a contemporary and modern society and in China.The importance of historical values determines that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement is a very popular subject in the creation of historical novels.The diversity of historical features determines the richness of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom narrative in the creation of historical novels."The unfor tunate fate of the country means the fortunate fate of the poets." From the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China,the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement has always been a popular subject in literary creation.After 1980 s,the novel crea tion revolving around this subject was in full swing.A large number of quality works appeared in the market.The time span of 20 years allowed the narrative of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to show certain qualities and structures.Judging from the current research results,we can conclude that the studies on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom novels that showed up in the 1980 s and 1990 s are obviously inadequate.Scholars have occasionally paid attention to individual works or writers,but they lack a holistic vi sion and ideas.That is the reason why this paper has the huge room to play.It is obvious that the research path from the shallow to the deep and from the micro to the macro is indispensable.However,the researchers should also have a holistic and system atic perspective at the right time.They shall learn to summarize and position the writers and works.Based on the above research background,this subject is an academic attempt by the author from the microscopic to the macroscopic.The historical narrativ e of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the 1980-1990's historical novels are different in various phases.The connection behind the imagination construction of different phases is the writer's creation conception,the background of the literature,and the spiritual outlook of the time and others.Therefore,this paper takes “the narrative of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the historical novels of 1980 s to 1990s” as the research subject,and explores the knowledge network and the changing significance behind the narrative of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in different stages of the 1980 s and 1990 s from the perspective of literary sociology.The full text is divided into three chapters for discussion.The first chapter,based on the political narrative perspectiv e,uses the two works of "Hate of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom " and "Dadu Soul" as representatives to analyze the political discourse logic of the narrative of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the early 1980 s.It also analyzes the succession and the revolution of the creation methods of the revolutionary history novel.The second chapter,from the perspective of cultural narrative,takes the two works of Zeng Guofan and Zuo Zongtang as representatives and combines the writer's creation to analyze the background and characteristics of this type of novel after entering the 1990 s.The third chapter,from the perspective of market narrative,takes the works of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and Yang Xiuqing as representatives and uses the detailed reading of the scripts to summarize the deep impact of historiography research and the ideological trend on the implication of creation.