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The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai: the Continuation and Development of Chinese Classical Novels - And on Which is not the First Novel of Chinese Modern Literature

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2012, (30), pp.361-379
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2012..30.015
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Published : October 31, 2012

王晶晶 1

1上海师范大学

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai is not the first novel of Chinese Modern Literature, but the continuation of the traditional novel, which shares varieties of similarity with The plum in the Golden Vase, Dream of the Red Chamber and other classical novels in many small details and plots. Furthermore, The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai is a work in succession to the tradition of two novels above, which reveal concrete human’s existence and contemplate inner and feeling world from daily life. And The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai follows Dream of the Red Chamber to think the fate of female. This paper tries to go into space of the novel, through discussing the vividly dialect and slang, the world of whorehouse, the way to structure and textualize to recovery the world which novelist constructed. Meanwhile, this paper tries to access to the meaning of the work opens, a completed expression about thecomplex life.

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