| Li Hanqiu was an important writer in the late Qing Dynasty and the early period of the Republic of China. Although he has the unique attainments in the aspects of poetry, prose, bronze, calligraphy and painting and so on, his highest achievement is the novel in literature creation. His love story has inherited the merits which"Dream of the Red Mansion"and the loves of the late of Qing Dynasty included. He had overcame the insufficiency in the love stories and obtained a greater achievement. His social novels had followed the strong points in the late of Qing Dynasty's social novels. In the foundation of developing the good and discarding the bad, he surmounted their shortcoming and had literary new and a style of his own. More important, he initiated an new novel's pattern, as passed through the longitude take the society and the woof take the love, with he unified the insufficiency of reflecting the social life in the late Qing Dynasty's love story, and the reality of lacking the love in the social novels. We called them the society and love novels, which had the important contribution, the foundation significance, and included both love and society.Taking the Li Hanqiu's novel and special society and love story as a main body, the present paper is researched by unifying social novel and the love story of the late Qing Dynasty and the early period of the Republic of China. Then we can better grasp the historical path of the Chinese society's transition and the reforming in the late Qing Dynasty and the early period of the Republic of China. Li Hanqiu's society and love novel was at the important reforming phase in that time. It had manifested the advancement of the Chinese novel literary style idea evolves. At the same time, his novel also had the value of the history, and reflected his transition time comprehensively. The full text was composed by the introduction, the main text and the conclusion. The introduction part briefly introduced research present situation, value and the contribution to the society and love story, and the research technique in this paper. The main text parts altogether divides into seven chapters:The first chapter is Li Hanqiu and the late Qing Dynasty and the early period of the Republic of China. It mainly introduced YangZhou's survey and the time background as well as the Li Hanqiu's biography and the cultural personality of the Dynasty. These aspects not only had affected the life and the disposition of Li Hanqiu, but also had affected his creation style, then all reflected in his novel degreely. So YangZhou was the important background in his novel. The old YangZhou had a traditional and magnificent history status, as well as had been eclipsed by many wars and massacres. All had the important influence to previous Dynasties writers. Li Hanqiu had witnessed the declining process, the society's turbulence and reforming of YangZhou, especially, he had experienced the process that was China carved up by the big powerful countries. The writer's views decide the writer's creates. Li Hanqiu's novels contained the ponder and anxiety to time reforming and the national destiny. His novels had recorded a time history.The second chapter is about Li Hanqiu-novel's creation path and the main work. It mainly introduces Li Hanqiu-novel's creation path, creation stages and the representative works. Li Hanqiu published the novel from 1906 and he died in May 1923. He was writing vigorous and ceaselessly in 18 years. He published 20 parts short novel and short novel collections, 36 parts novelette and saga novels, and five poetry anthologies, five mixed literary works and twenty note works in this and before times. We can reckon his first create stage as from 1906 to 1909. This is his newly established time. His creation had not mature trace, regardless of the thought of novel or the writing technique, but also had many better works. The second stage was the mature period, which was from 1909 to 1919. His most representative and achievement works was completed in this time. The"The tide of Guang Ling""The Record of Battlefield and Hawk Flower""Odd Along of Variant and Phoenix"were recognized as three representative works. They were all republished in this time, and symbolized the mature and the high point of his novel. The third stage was from 1919 to 1923. It was the reforming time. His novel's main theme started to change from love and society to the family.The third chapter is the Li Hanqiu-novel's inheriting and the development to modern love stories. First, it makes an outline to the modern love stories. Before the prosperity of love story in the early period of the Republic of China, the Chinese neoteric love story mainly included the continued books about"Dream of the Red Mansion", many debauchery novel about"the love always becomes dream"and the love story of the feudal legal principle theory exceeding the love, they were invented around the Opium War, and influenced by feudal theory. The three sorts manifested the sentiment, but the way of expression and the aim was different, even we thought that they were not the"the sentiment"in the popular significance, but were the variety of the sentiment with the strong social utility and the individual goal. Then the sentiment became the non-sentiment under the distortion utility goal. Next is the breakthrough to the sentiment in the love story. The description of the sentiment in the latter-day love story, attached the too many social ingredient. The sentiment in Li Hanqiu-novel is about the male and female, mostly are they love each other and experience the tribulation, finally they become to the family member, and entrusted the fresh idea in the sentiment. Second is Hanqiu's breakthrough about the latter-day love story's society. The latter-day love story had more or less reflected the society. But most ones reflected indirectly. The society was the background of the sentiment, but not the social description frontage. Hanqiu solves this problem. He puts the sentiment in the intense social evolution and the conflict. He interweaves the society and the sentiment, described them frontage, and takes them the equally important clues of vertically and horizontally. In the elaboration of the latter-day love novel, the paper elaborates the deficiency mainly, thus emphasizes the breakthrough of the love and the social description aspects in the Hanqiu-novel.The fourth chapter is Li Hanqiu's following and surmounting to the latter society novel. Firstly, the paper carries on the outline into the social novel in the time of Hanqiu, mainly from latter-day condemnation and political novel aspects. Next it elaborates Li Hanqiu-novel's following from the latter social novel's plot, character, structure, subject and so on. Li Hanqiu was influenced by the latter social novel, especially the condemned novel, and used the condemnable technique in very many novels. But he was not simply fellow, he had carried on the innovation and creation under this foundation. Furthermore, the surmounting to the latter-day social novel in Hanqiu-novel includes the surmounting of the subject and the artistic structure.The fifth chapter mainly elaborates Li Hanqiu's unique contribution to the literary arena of the late Qing Dynasty and the early period of the Republic of China, which is social and love novel. Li Hanqiu's novel had obtained the unique achievement by"profound thought and the special form", but the achievements cannot be separated with the influence of traditional novel's idea. He had the success and surmounting by absorbing the predecessor achievements. Therefore, this chapter explores the developing the good and discarding the bad with the fusion that Hanqiu falling to predecessor novel. Next it analyzes each kind of characters that refracted from the realistic mirror in his novels. Once more mainly elaborates the network structure which the love and the society vertically descript in Hanqiu-novel and the literature status and influence of his technique. Hanqiu is this kind of novel founder and collection accomplishing in some kind of significance. The love novel developed to modern time, the people gradually realized that love novel have no alternative but to say the society, and they had to have a master line that through the full text when reflecting the society. The master line was love. Only the two aspects unifying of passing through the longitude taking the society and the woof taking the love were the best expression form. Finally, it elaborates the characteristics of the society and the love from the form and the content of novels.The sixth chapter elaborates Li Hanqiu-novel's culture connotation. We do not seek the definition and the category of the culture. But we make an objective appraise for Li Hanqiu-novel as far as possible by analyzing the culture connotation under the base of culture which the people approves generally. Firstly, we discuss the influence that Confucianist-culture to Li Hanqiu-novel. Hanqiu was born in an old-style family and received the legitimate education. He studied assiduously many years, even participated in the preliminary examination in the Qing Dynasty. His thought was influenced by Confucianism by all means. But because of the character and the family, he rebelled against this culture. Next we discuss the significance of west-humanism in Hanqiu-novel's, that mainly planned the positive and the negative significance that was influenced by the ideological trend of west-humanism after the western culture came into the east country. Finally, we discuss the significance of custom and culture in Hanqiu-novel's.The seventh chapter is the time significance of Li Hanqiu-novel."All history are the contemporary history", similarly, any novel had its time significance at that time. The value of Hanqiu-novel lies in that it closely covers the time subject and describes that transit time like a mirror. The time significance of Hanqiu-novel is its initial purport and the anti-feudal subject firstly. It has a function of enlightening common people. Next it is novel's education significance and consciousness of common character. Li Hanqiu-novel had obtained a huge result by their profound thought in that time which he life. His period was alternate between new and old society. In this chaotic and disorderly approximate anarchy, China had experienced the enormous turbulence and reforming of political, economical and culture. Hanqiu had made the time vicissitude secretary that by the judgment of fiction writer. He had recorded that history really approximately, satirized the social group clown, eulogized the progressive social class. His novel has the vital significance because of having the advanced time thought.The conclusion part mainly elaborates Li Hanqiu-novel's influence to modern literature. For example, his novel has influences to Zhang Henshui who was recognized as representative of modern society and love novel, to Ba Jin who was recognized as representative of modern family novel. And it has influences to enlightenment and the anti-feudal subject of works written by Lu Xun and the local writers around 1919.
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