Contemporary Chinese Literature Research Articles

Jin Yong's Martial Arts Novels - The Reception Process in Vietnam

Jin Yong is widely regarded as a master and leader of Chinese martial arts novels, and is one of the most influential writers in contemporary Chinese literature. Despite being written over half a century ago, Jin Yong's martial arts novels continue to captivate readers around the world, including in Vietnam. In Vietnam, Jin Yong's novels were translated and studied very early, possessing many unique features, but researchers have not mentioned much about the reception of Jin Yong's novel in Vietnam. Therefore, this article aims to explore the process of translating, disseminating, and researching Jin Yong's martial arts novels in Vietnam, with the intention of highlighting their appeal and influence in both Chinese popular literature and globally. The main research methods used in this article include sociological methods, data statistical analysis methods, and a combination of descriptive analysis and explanation. The sociological method is employed to examine the relationship between society and writers, translators, works, and translations. The article also analyzes Jin Yong's novels by considering the historical and social background of Vietnam in different eras, as well as the aesthetic preferences and requirements of Vietnamese readers. The data statistical analysis method is utilized to obtain a more scientific and reliable understanding of the entry of Chinese martial arts novels and Jin Yong's novels into Vietnam. Additionally, the method that combines descriptive analysis and explanation aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the dissemination, translation, and research of Chinese martial arts novels, specifically focusing on Jin Yong's works in Vietnam. From there, the article affirms, the Jin Yong phenomenon in Vietnam can be seen as a phenomenon that evolves with the times. In recent years, the literary, cultural, and historical value of Jin Yong's martial arts novels has been increasingly recognized by Vietnamese readers and researchers. As an important representative of contemporary Chinese literature, Jin Yong's work serves as a crucial foundation for both his own martial arts novels and for Chinese contemporary literature to maintain a significant presence in the world of Vietnamese translated literature.

Chinese Female Writer Zhang Yueran and Fictional Features of Her Prose

In this paper, the author analyzes the fiction of contemporary Chinese female writer Zhang Yueran (b. 1982). As a radiant and influential representative of the post-1980s generation in contemporary Chinese literature, Zhang Yueran is considered to be one of most talented and strong young writers. Post-1980s Chinese writers are known by depiction of young people’s lives in big cities with elements of magical realism, however, unlike the most Post-1980s Chinese writers, Zhang Yueran focuses more on the characters’ subjectivity and their pursuit of love (parental and romantic). Her complex characters thrive for love and happiness, but also suffer from loneliness and lack of parental attention. Zhang Yueran’s writing is visceral and almost poetic in its use of metaphor. The development of Zhang Yueran’s prose can be divided two key periods. Her early works are aesthetic psychological thrillers about unhealthy love, inspired by classical fairytales that end with a character’s death and self-destruction: while the language is beautiful and almost poetic, but there is a lack of narrative depth. In her second era, Zhang Yueran returns to realism and successfully combines style and deep narrative by contrasting scenes of cruelty and mercy. At the moment her latest novel “Cocoon” embodies all significant fictional features from the perspective of both style and narrative.

Literatura da nova era: estudo da qualidade poética de Glück e sua afinidade com as características da cultura chinesa

Abstract: As a modern American poet with international influence, Louise Glück’s works demonstrate a unique spirit of innovation and sense of experimentation, which would open up a new field of poetic creation. Therefore, it is important to study the influence of Gluck’s works on the literature of the new Chinese period. This paper examined the dissemination of Chinese cultural influences and their role in contemporary Chinese literature through the lens of poetics in Glück’s literary works. By employing data mining techniques, this paper conducted an online survey on the sales volume and readership of Glück’s works, examining the readers’ demographic information, including age, education level and regional distribution. The survey results demonstrated that from March 2020 to October 2020, the average monthly sales volume of Glück’s print books was 13,625, while the average monthly readership of e-books was 21,520.75. Glück’s works have been widely disseminated in China and collided with Chinese culture. Glück’s poetic nature and stubborn spirit of solitude without sinking have opened up new possibilities for contemporary Chinese literature and provided a new way for writers to explore art.

Произведения Н. В. Гоголя в китайской аудитории: история переводческой деятельности и особенности изучения творчества

Introduction. The early twentieth century reforms in China gave rise to the issue of renovating fiction that profoundly influences collective consciousness. Chinese translators started actively addressing foreign fiction, including classic Russian literature. Goals. The study attempts an insight how Chinese reading audience’s interest in Russian classics — and particularly in the works of Nikolai V. Gogol — would take form and develop. Results. As for the reasons behind the Chinese translators’ appeal to Russian classical literature, the paper notes those are associated with the huge political and social changes in Russia after the October Revolution. The latter facilitated that Russian literature has firmly entered the cultural space of China, having yielded strong impacts on both readers and Chinese writers. The May Fourth Movement not only marked the beginning of a new era in the history of twentieth century China, but also served as an impetus for the development of new Chinese literature. The works of N. Gogol began to occupy a special place in this cultural space. Since 1920, when N. Gogol’s first work was published in a Chinese magazine, attention to his literary heritage has grown significantly. The translation activities of Qu Qiubai, Geng Jizhi, Ren Guangxuan, Bai Sihong, Bai Chunren and many other associates contributed to the widespread interest in N. Gogol’s works all across China. These efforts were paralleled by literary studies of the writer’s fiction techniques and style. The 1950s witnessed a ‘pause’. At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, articles dedicated to N. Gogol disappeared from Chinese newspapers and magazines, but already in the 1970s publications about his works started reappearing. Since the 1990s, the research of Chinese specialists into N. Gogol’s narratives has become far more profound and diverse, and this work will continue, since Russian classical literature has had — and still does — a great influence on the development of contemporary Chinese literature.

Study on the Dissemination Path of Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature in the Background of the Internet

Abstract This paper first establishes a literary communication SICR model on the basis of the communication SICR model. It adopts cultural communication state transfer to construct a social network composed of N-closed individuals. Secondly, the dissemination threshold when the model reaches a stable state is discussed from the beginning and end of the literary work dissemination process. Finally, numerical simulation research using MATLAB software is used to analyze the propagation process of modern Chinese literary works, with examples provided. The results show that the number of literary ignoramuses (I) transformed into literary propagators (S) gradually rises when the initial values are S(t)=8915, I(t) =3414, C 0 =5288, and R 0 =850 in the dissemination process of X novels in Fictum, a Chinese online literature, and reaches the dissemination threshold when the dissemination rate reaches 0.856. This paper aims to provide a guide for advancing the advancement of modern and contemporary Chinese literature to the outside world and advocating for cultural dissemination.

Exploring homology of fields in translation

Abstract The translation and reception of contemporary Chinese literature into Portuguese have gained prominence recently but have not received much scholarly attention. This study employs Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of homology to analyze the relationship between translation and various related fields and their impact on translating Chinese contemporary literature in Brazil and Portugal from 2000 to 2022. It highlights how these fields’ interconnectedness has both facilitated and hindered translation practices. The research explores the notion of fields and homology and examines the translation production process, focusing on how the translation field interacts with its academic, educational, and political counterparts. Using the translation of contemporary Chinese literature into Portuguese as a case study, the article suggests that the structural similarity among these fields significantly affects how Chinese literature is translated and received, influencing the choice of works, translation methods, and publishing priorities. Through an extensive analysis, the study bridges Bourdieu’s homology concept with practical scenarios, enhancing the discourse in translation studies and Chinese literature, particularly in the Portuguese context.

An Analysis of Cao Yus Creative Conception of Female Images Transformation in His Plays

As the Pioneer of Chinese Drama, Cao Yu has contributed a series of distinctive and representative female images to contemporary Chinese literature. However, it exists a great transformation in female image creation and aesthetics in his plays. Divided from 1938, modern women represented by Fanyi, Chen Bailu and Hua Jinzi full of passion for life were celebrated by Cao Yu during the pre-time, while traditional women with classic Chinese flavors got well recognized by him during the post-time, such as Doctor Ding, Sufang and Ruijue. The transformation related closely to his creative conception, reflecting Cao Yus re-choice of his aesthetic interests, values, and cultural stance. This article analyzed Cao Yus creative conception from the differences between his two periods of female image creation and aesthetics before and after 1938. In recent years, feminism has been on the rise in China. Therefore, it will not only be beneficial to the Chinese womens liberation movement, but also to the worlds womens liberation movement.

The Identity Dilemma of Qiu Hu in 'The Wilderness': Unveiling the Hidden Oppression behind the 'See'

Seeing and being seen is a classic motif in contemporary Chinese literature. The action of see represents not only the instinctive behavior of people but also a relationship between people, which has a complex socio-cultural meaning behind it, causing the subject of seeing and the object of being seen to suffer mental scrutiny and even oppression. In The Wilderness by Cao Yu, the relationship between Qiu Hu and the characters in The Wilderness is one of seeing and being seen, and they are always under the pressure of seeing. Therefore, this paper will adopt the method of textual reading to classify and analyze Qiu Hus multiple identities from the relationship of seeing and being seen among the dramatic characters and classify Qiu Hus identities into three aspects: social ethics, social laws, and social, interpersonal relationships Qiu Hus identity is divided into victim and victimizer, judged and judge, and the outlier who cannot fit in, and the character of Qiu Hu is reinterpreted and reconstructed. Under the perspective of see, Qiu Hus multiple identities arise from the conflict between humans and society, and his identity dilemma symbolizes the dilemma of the relationship between the individual and the collective and even the individual and the society.

An Analysis of the Concept of Death in Chronicle of a Blood Merchant

Chronicle of a Blood Merchant is one of the masterpieces of Yu Huas late pioneering literature, which has an important place in the history of contemporary Chinese literature. This article takes the analysis of Chronicle of a Blood Merchant as its research direction, mainly using Heideggers existentialist philosophical theory as the core theoretical support and following the principle of seeing the big picture in a small way to analyse the work. By analysing the imagery of blood in the text, this paper identifies the triple meaning of blood in work as representing life, kinship and the value of life. In the second and third parts, this essay further analyses and discusses the character Xu Sanguans concept of death and his transcendence of death, as well as the sense of life and its values, conveyed throughout the work, by analysing the characters act of selling blood. Ultimately, the paper concludes that the characters life consciousness is based on a struggle with suffering and self-giving and is guided by a sense of life that leads to a transcendence of death.

Gender Dilemma and Fu Ji in Ji Shen in light of Power Theory

Ji Shen, the masterpiece of Sun Pin, is an important part of contemporary Chinese literature. The novel shows the modern popularity of "planchette writing" culture and explores people's alienation in the influence of the culture. The core idea in Ji Shen coincides with the French sociologist Foucault's theory of social power systems, both mutually evident. This perspective reveals that although the protagonists, Chang Yong and Yang Deqing, keep trying to reclaim their gender, their journey of resistance is always manipulated by "power", culminating in the unsolvable gender dilemma described in Ji Shen. Similarly, Foucault believed that power could only be overcome through sadism and masochism, but that sadism and masochism could also result in severe self-harm and ultimately death. Moreover, Fu Ji has a long history in China and became popular again in the 1980s and 1990s. This novel is a refraction of this history and has significant cultural value.

The Embodiment of “Harmony” Culture in the Classics of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature

The Embodiment of “Harmony” Culture in the Classics of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature

A Comparison of Expression Theory Between Expressionism and Chinese Traditional Poetics

Harmony in diversity is the basic requirement of the comparative study of Chinese and foreign poetics. Expressionism, as an important school of western literature, focuses on intuition and emphasizes performance. Their works focus on the expression of emotions, using a variety of artistic means to reflect the people’s inner activities and mental state, while ignoring the description of the form of the object, often in the form of distortion and abstraction of reality. Therefore, in the works of expressionist writers and artists, abstract, deformation, symbol, illusion and so on are presented. Chinese ancient literature also attached great importance to expression, but the view of expression in expressionism literature was obviously different from that in traditional Chinese poetics. These differences are influenced not only by the time factors, but also by the national cultural differences. Through the comparative study of the two, we can find the differences and connections of expression between Expressionism and Chinese traditional poetics and promote the further development of the expression theory in contemporary Chinese literature.

The Urban Mirror in the Makings of Memories

The modern individuals are not passive containers of their memories. Rather, they are subjects who create memories. Memories are mirrors, the very apparatus upon which people identify themselves. Under personal motives or desires, they consciously or unconsciously create their own versions of the past, by subjectively neglecting some essential and stressful “others,” capturing some particular moments, and empowering certain details with special meanings. When modern individuals are petrified by their confusion or loss, they strive to “create” identity for themselves – a solid shelter to provide a strong sense of belonging, which at the same time generates an “othering” process within the dominant discourse. There are many versions of the past within people’s minds, while the ontological “past” is always under the weight of multiple “interpretations.” Literature and films are crucial means in this process of reconstructing “history.” Certain entrenched beliefs are constructed in people’s minds by interior or external forces, powers, and desires. However, those concepts also face challenges of deconstruction every now and then. This paper attempts to explore the process of reconstructing history by creating private and collective memories in modern and contemporary Chinese literature and films centering on the city of Shanghai along with some other urban narratives.

An analysis of the translation process of contemporary Chinese literature based on the Kalman filter algorithm

Abstract Exploring the evolution of translation of contemporary Chinese literature better presents Chinese literary charm to foreign readers. This paper starts with the Kalman filter algorithm and introduces its cost function that satisfies the error minimization and the Kalman filter gain. Then the BP neural network is illustrated, its minimization of mean square error is solved using the backpropagation algorithm, and the momentum factor is introduced to update the weight function of the BP neural network. The correlation between the Kalman gain and the filtering error is fitted using BP neural network to optimize the Kalman filtering algorithm, and the algorithm flow chart of the BP-KF algorithm is given. Finally, the BP-KF algorithm is used to analyze the data on the evolution of translation strategies and translation dissemination channels of contemporary Chinese literature on the Internet. From the evolution of the translation strategy, the number of translated works of additive French literature decreased by 5.28% year-on-year from 2016 to 2020, and the number of translated works of annotated French literature increased by nearly 11 times year-on-year from 2016 to 2020. In terms of the evolution of the translation and dissemination channels, the percentage of using the Internet to disseminate literary translation and mediation works reviews increased from 16.29% in 2017 to 41.65% in 2021, an increase of 25.36 percentage points. Based on the BP-KF algorithm, the evolution of translation of contemporary Chinese literature can be effectively analyzed, and the data can visually show the direction of the evolution of literary translation, thus expanding the influence of contemporary Chinese literature.

On Cross-Cultural Reception of Contemporary Chinese Literature -- with the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing as an Example

As an important part of Chinese literature, Chinese contemporary literature is a powerful force to promote Chinese culture to go out. However, in the cross-cultural context, the previous studies on Chinese contemporary literature focus on dissemination rather than acceptance. Domestic promoters are more important than foreign institutions. In view of this, this paper, based on The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing, which is a world public welfare organization for the independent translation and introduction of Chinese contemporary literature, investigates the characteristics and preferences of the research centre in the selection of authors and works in the introduction of Chinese contemporary literature from a macro perspective, and explores the factors affecting the cross-cultural acceptance of these works based on the comments of English readers.

An Analysis of the Humanistic Quality of Modern and Contemporary Literary Works from the Perspective of Reading — Taking "The New Year's Sacrifice" as an Example

Modern and contemporary Chinese literature, rooted in the soil of the development of modern and contemporary Chinese society, is in an era of extreme turbulence and change, which makes modern and contemporary Chinese literature full of innovation in writing skills and other artistic techniques, and at the same time, extends extremely rich ideological content and humanistic qualities. Taking Lu Xun's "The New Year's Sacrifice" as an example to analyze the humanistic quality of modern and contemporary literary works is conducive to further exploring the new vision of high school Chinese reading under the core quality, so that readers can obtain the improvement of literacy in reading teaching.

Crack and Complicity – Bai Xianyong's The Last Night of Madam Jin Text and Film Adapting the Feminist Paradigm of Existence in a Double

The group image of females in the entertainment world constructed by Bai Xianyong is an important part of the contemporary Chinese female literature. Characterized by gender manifestation, objectification and psychological reflection, it mainly studies the destiny of females in the entertainment scene world in the change of time and space. It makes multi-angle polishing on the distorted discourse of females under the pressure of materialism and females’ subjective understanding of self-identity. This not only brings the study of the image of females in the entertainment world, which is different from the traditional one in recent times, into a new feminist value category, but also provides a more three-dimensional space to explore the gender identity of this group under multiple perspectives. Apart from that, a more three-dimensional space is offered to explore the gender identity of this group in multiple perspectives. With the maturity of film adaptation, the female characters in the entertainment world, represented by “Madam Jin”, have both textual and cinematic critical perspectives, which jointly enrich the context of Oriental females’ studies and break the stereotyped, single impression of these females in mainstream culture. However, there are also inevitable cracks in the discourse.

The Influence of Christian Culture on Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature—A Textual Analysis Based on Cao Yu's "Thunderstorm"

The Influence of Christian Culture on Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature—A Textual Analysis Based on Cao Yu's "Thunderstorm"

ON THE STRATEGY OF CONTENT SELECTION FOR CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE LITERATURE --WITH “PAPER REPUBLIC” AS AN EXAMPLE

With the rapidly developing globalization, cultural communication between China and foreign countries is undoubtedly a trend. How to successfully spread Chinese contemporary literature has become a hot topic. The Paper Republic, established in 2007, is a new and important way for the overseas dissemination of contemporary Chinese literature. This paper studies the articles selected by the "Read Paper Republic campaign" and analyse their content, in order to know the content and topics that the English-speaking world readers are interested in, and their preferences for Chinese contemporary literature.

An Interpretation of the Cultural Implications in "Teahouse", the Treasure of Contemporary Chinese Literature

An Interpretation of the Cultural Implications in "Teahouse", the Treasure of Contemporary Chinese Literature