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Bao Tianxiao’s Narration on the 1911 Revolution: Centered by the Stories of 1911’s Characters

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2014, (34), pp.313-325
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2014..34.013
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Published : February 28, 2014

Wang Jingjing 1

1上海师范大学

Accredited

ABSTRACT

As early as in 1906, Bao Tianxiao has tried to record 1911 Revolution issues in Blue Blood, in which Qiu Jing was the protagonist. In 1911’s Characters, Bao Tianxiao still pursued to make a biography for contemporary history and tell the story about 1911 Revolution. 1911’s Characters continued the Chinese history-record tradition; and although it was a novel, complied with the authentic principles and be named by writer as “approaching history novel”. It pursued incoherence of the narration and representing the cracks and dispersions of history; which made the novel more believable. Furthermore, it added many interesting detail to grand history and also added expressions to historical figures, meanwhile, it made the readers like it for its vivid description as “telling history”. 1911’s Characters represented the orderless politics, society and era by a kind of carnivalized scenes, rather than display the coherent historic issues according some fixed logics by realistic ways; and meanwhile, this novel displayed the characters’ destinies and “reappeared some particular moment in the novel world” successfully.

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