@article{ART003341641},
author={LEE HYUK},
title={A Study on the cultural contents of contemporary Chinese literature ― Focusing on the Yan Lianke’s novel named Blind Date, Clear Night},
journal={The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China},
issn={1738-0502},
year={2026},
number={80},
pages={427-448},
doi={10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.015}
TY - JOUR
AU - LEE HYUK
TI - A Study on the cultural contents of contemporary Chinese literature ― Focusing on the Yan Lianke’s novel named Blind Date, Clear Night
JO - The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
PY - 2026
VL - null
IS - 80
PB - Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
SP - 427
EP - 448
SN - 1738-0502
AB - This study examines Yan Lianke’s Suqiu Gongmian as a case study for the cultural content adaptation of contemporary Chinese literature. The novel is significant not only because of its unusual plot but also because it already contains multiple media forms within the text itself, including testimony, interrogation records, screenplay fragments, interviews, and authorial afterwords. For that reason, the work should be understood not merely as a source text for adaptation but as a self-reflexive narrative that reflects on the very desire for adaptation. This study first analyzes how the novel destabilizes the boundary between fiction and non-fiction through the author’s self-insertion and the incorporation of real cultural figures. It then identifies the novel’s core content assets: contradictory characters, layered documentary structures, and sharply contrasted rural-urban spaces. Based on this analysis, the paper proposes several adaptation models, including feature film, OTT series, audio drama, stage reading, digital archive, and exhibition-based transmedia projects. The paper argues that the successful adaptation of Suqiu Gongmian depends less on reproducing its sensational events than on preserving its polyphonic structure, ethical tension, and meta-media consciousness. In this sense, the cultural content transformation of contemporary Chinese literature should be understood as the remediation of literary complexity rather than the mere industrialization of plot.
KW - Yan Lianke;Suqiu Gongmian;contemporary Chinese literature;cultural content adaptation;adaptation studies;transmedia storytelling
DO - 10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.015
ER -
LEE HYUK. (2026). A Study on the cultural contents of contemporary Chinese literature ― Focusing on the Yan Lianke’s novel named Blind Date, Clear Night. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, 80, 427-448.
LEE HYUK. 2026, "A Study on the cultural contents of contemporary Chinese literature ― Focusing on the Yan Lianke’s novel named Blind Date, Clear Night", The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, no.80, pp.427-448. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.015
LEE HYUK "A Study on the cultural contents of contemporary Chinese literature ― Focusing on the Yan Lianke’s novel named Blind Date, Clear Night" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China 80 pp.427-448 (2026) : 427.
LEE HYUK. A Study on the cultural contents of contemporary Chinese literature ― Focusing on the Yan Lianke’s novel named Blind Date, Clear Night. 2026; 80 : 427-448. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.015
LEE HYUK. "A Study on the cultural contents of contemporary Chinese literature ― Focusing on the Yan Lianke’s novel named Blind Date, Clear Night" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China no.80(2026) : 427-448.doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.015
LEE HYUK. A Study on the cultural contents of contemporary Chinese literature ― Focusing on the Yan Lianke’s novel named Blind Date, Clear Night. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, 80, 427-448. doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.015
LEE HYUK. A Study on the cultural contents of contemporary Chinese literature ― Focusing on the Yan Lianke’s novel named Blind Date, Clear Night. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China. 2026; 80 427-448. doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.015
LEE HYUK. A Study on the cultural contents of contemporary Chinese literature ― Focusing on the Yan Lianke’s novel named Blind Date, Clear Night. 2026; 80 : 427-448. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.015
LEE HYUK. "A Study on the cultural contents of contemporary Chinese literature ― Focusing on the Yan Lianke’s novel named Blind Date, Clear Night" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China no.80(2026) : 427-448.doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.015
