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The Analysis and Comments on Qian Zhong-shu’s Fable ‘God’s Dream’

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2011, (26), pp.235-259
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2011..26.011
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Published : June 30, 2011

장개특 1

1國立中興大學

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Since the May Fourth Movement, the conflicts between Chinese and Western cultures were found in the path toward modern China, and also reflect the watershed in the ancient and modern China. Qian’s Chinese-western scholar background encourages him to write God’s Dream, expressing his comments and position of those conflicts. With the metaphor involved the situations of nation and race, the novel contains the spirit of national allegory. In the novel, Qian inverted the Holy God, and rebuilt the relationships between God, human and snake. By arranging a new plot, Qian aroused the conflict between the Evolution and God’s divinity, displaying the collision of those theories, refuting the Evolution. In the novel Evolution and Fables in Holy Bible resemble modern civilization and traditional religion respectively. Qian implied that to remove the difficulties of Chinese modernization, western prescription shall not always work, and the modern loneliness under culture conflicts.

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