Romances: The Type Of A New Novel To A New Literary Style

This dissertation studies the genre of Chinese romantic fiction known as Caizijiaren novel or scholar-beauty romances. Caizijiaren novel or scholar-beauty romances were prevalent at the late Ming and early Qing times. Although previous scholars have devoted a considerable amount of effort to studying the works of Caizijiaren novel or scholar-beauty romances, many issues still require clarification. By re-examining results of previous studies, this dissertation takes on two tasks. First it clares up the basic issue among many complex and intricately interrelated social factors which whip together long-standing. Second it explores the interactions between fiction creation and various social factors. This dissertation argues market is a important factor that gets far-reaching influences on Caizijiaren novel or scholar-beauty romances. The perspective of commercialism makes this dissertation significantly different from previous studies.This dissertation falls into four parts.Chapter 1 based on plenty of historical document and material explores the authorof yujiaoli and pingshanlengyan ,the two famous works of Caizijiaren novel orscholar-beauty romances, was Fengmenglong, a famous writer of best seller at Mingdynasty. The other important person Tianhuacangziren who had reltived deeply withCaizijiaren novel or scholar-beauty romances was Houhuiqing, a love ofFengmenglong. Other issue about relationship with liuzhang and Caizijiaren novelor scholar-beauty romances is also clared up.Chaper 2 defines ,calssifies Caizijiaren novel or scholar-beauty romances anddiscusses it forms a special genre in the history of Chinese literature. Genrenovel is put forward as a new concept to descript Caizijiaren novel orscholar-beauty romances.Chaper 3 discusses the consumption character of Caizijiaren novel or scholar-beautyromances as a genre novel.Chaper 4 points out the reason of the blossom and the decline of Caizijiaren novelor scholar-beauty romances.