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A Study on Guan Hanqing’s Sanqu & Zaju

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2013, (33), pp.303-329
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2013..33.013
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Published : October 31, 2013

YANG HOI SEOK 1

1전남대학교

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ABSTRACT

Guan Hanqing is the prominent writer in the area of Sanqu and Zaju and both are usally evaluated totally different from each other. This belief comes from as follows. Zaju tends to criticize social reality actively(aggressively). Sanqu, meanwhile, escape from reality and settle for the personal taste so it has been devaluated relative importance. This tendency presupposes that Yuan Dynasty is dark ages. But in the frontline of Guan Hanqing’s literary works, under the control of Kublai Khan and Marco Polo’s jorney to the East, the period was not dark ages but full of vitality and taste for the arts. Guan Hanqing made the point clear in ‘Bu fu lao’ that his goal in life was making romance with women, especially courtesans. Romance between men and women took a central place in his literary works cause all of his writings reflected his aim regardless of Sanqu or Zaju. So appraisals of his works that Sanqu and Zaju are totally different from each other is not persuasive. The literati always win over love in Guan Hanqing’s work. They are so far as to defeat so many rivals such as wealthy merchants or the powerful. This tells the literati’s unconscious wishes. Then again, women play a leading role and the literati paly the fool in the process of romance. It means writer wants to meet the needs of audience, but at the same time to tell the literati’s shabby self-portraits. From a cultural history perspective, there are self awareness and pride of full-time writer of popular literature in the world of Guan Hanqing’s works. A figure of the literati who win competition and finally capture women’s heart is the very true self of popular writer who hunger for appeal to the mass. The world of Guan Hanqing’s works are self-portrait or declaration as the new style literati. In this context, reappraisal of Guan Hanqing’s value and real worth is necessary.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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