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《水浒传》评论中对立思维的三次递进
On the Three Stages of Contradictory Comments of The Water Margin
- Liu Yongqiang 刘永强 - Peking University, China - email
Abstract
From the Ming dynasty to the present day, the particular subject matter of the novel shuihu zhuan (The Water Margin or Outlaws on the Marsh) has polarized commentary on it more than any other work of pre-modern Chinese fiction. The continuous evolution of that commentary can be divided roughly into three stages. In the Ming and early Qing periods, the argument centered on whether the novel's protagonists were ‘loyal and righteous’ or ‘bandits’, two seemingly opposing views that were, in fact, both formed in the interest of defending established ideology. In the late Qing dynasty, while society underwent violent change, and prose fiction as a whole was devalued, there were those who saw in Shuihu zhuan «the beginnings of democracy and civil society», but there were also opponents who found in it the roots of civil unrest and national collapse, branding it «the cancer of the Fiction lists». Over the last half-century, the newly-established government’s initial championing of ‘reasonable revolt’ has clashed with greater support for the rule of law after Reform and Opening Up. While these three critical oppositions to Shuihu zhuan have not all addressed the same question, their approaches in intellectual engagement have been similar, inspired as they were by the novel’s descriptions of revolt against and protection of the established order. For this reason, the three-stage, spiraling advance of the conflicting commentary on Shuihu zhuan reflects, from a unique angle, changes in Chinese society, thought and literature.
Submitted: July 16, 2016 | Language: it
Keywords The Water Margin • Pre-modern Chinese fiction • Outlaws on the Marsh • Shuihu zhuan
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Introduction
- Introduction
- Tiziana Lippiello, Maddalena Barenghi, Chen Yuehong 陈跃红
Part 1 Pre-Modern and Modern Literature
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Measuring Human Relations
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Reading of the Lunyu - Tiziana Lippiello
- Bai Shouyi on Sima Qian and Ban Gu
- Hans van Ess
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'中国'之义:文中子的立身与存心
The Notion of ‘Zhongguo’: The Life and Thought of Wenzhongzi - Zhang Pei 张沛
- On the Literary Self-Consciousness of the Han, Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties
- Fu Gang 傅刚
- Traditional Chinese Jestbooks and Ming Revival
- Giulia Baccini
-
《水浒传》评论中对立思维的三次递进
On the Three Stages of Contradictory Comments of The Water Margin - Liu Yongqiang 刘永强
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Becoming a Couple
Conversations and Couple Narrative in the Novella Jiao Hong ji - Barbara Bisetto
-
The Chapter Titles in Xiyou ji and Honglou meng
Continuity and Discontinuity - Nicholas Koss
Part 2 Contemporary Literature
-
‘晚郁时期’的中国当代文学
'The Belated Mellow Period' of Chinese Contemporary Literature - Chen Xiaoming 陈晓明
- Honma Hisao’s model of Literary Theory and its Influence in China
- Jin Yongbing 金永兵
- The Disillusionment with the Rural Utopia in Chinese Literature
- Wu Xiaodong 吴晓东
Part 3 Poetry and Theatre
-
Traditions and Transitions in Eighteenth-Century Qu Poetry
The Case of Jiang Shiquan (1725-1785) - Tian Yuan Tan
- Feng Zhi and Goethe of Later Years
- Zhang Hui 张辉
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What’s the Link between the Lyrical and Modernity in China?
A Discussion on Chinese lyrical Modernity - Li Yang 李杨
- Poetic Taste and Tasting Poetry
- Yang Zhu 杨铸
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Voices of the Dead
Tao Yuanming and Emily Dickinson’s Poems on Their Own Death - Qin Liyan 秦立彦
Part 4 Language and Political Discourse
- Modernity and Subjectivity from the Past to the Present
- Yang Xiaobin 杨小滨
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The Evolution of Metaphorical Language in Contemporary Chinese Political Discourse
Preliminary Evidence from the 12th and 18th CPC Congresses - Paolo Magagnin
-
论“底”来源于“者”
On the Derivation of ‘di’ 底 from ‘zhě’ 者 - Yang Rongxiang 杨荣祥
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《水浒传》评论中对立思维的三次递进. On the Three Stages of Contradictory Comments of The Water Margin |
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From the Ming dynasty to the present day, the particular subject matter of the novel shuihu zhuan (The Water Margin or Outlaws on the Marsh) has polarized commentary on it more than any other work of pre-modern Chinese fiction. The continuous evolution of that commentary can be divided roughly into three stages. In the Ming and early Qing periods, the argument centered on whether the novel's protagonists were ‘loyal and righteous’ or ‘bandits’, two seemingly opposing views that were, in fact, both formed in the interest of defending established ideology. In the late Qing dynasty, while society underwent violent change, and prose fiction as a whole was devalued, there were those who saw in Shuihu zhuan «the beginnings of democracy and civil society», but there were also opponents who found in it the roots of civil unrest and national collapse, branding it «the cancer of the Fiction lists». Over the last half-century, the newly-established government’s initial championing of ‘reasonable revolt’ has clashed with greater support for the rule of law after Reform and Opening Up. While these three critical oppositions to Shuihu zhuan have not all addressed the same question, their approaches in intellectual engagement have been similar, inspired as they were by the novel’s descriptions of revolt against and protection of the established order. For this reason, the three-stage, spiraling advance of the conflicting commentary on Shuihu zhuan reflects, from a unique angle, changes in Chinese society, thought and literature. |
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2016-09-29 |
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2016-07-16 |
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Outlaws on the Marsh |
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Outlaws on the Marsh |
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Pre-modern Chinese fiction |
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Pre-modern Chinese fiction |
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Shuihu zhuan |
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Shuihu zhuan |
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The Water Margin |
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The Water Margin |
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