"the Wizard Of Oz," Dynasty

One-hundred-chapter book"The Wizard of Oz"written by Li Baichuan was finished in Qing Qianlong Twenty-seven years (1762). Although this book's reputation until now it is not high just the same with its author Li Baichuan , Tao Jiahe who wrote preface for this book at the same time once regarded it with"The Water Magin","The Golden Lotus"as"great scenery"and"wonderful works"(Tao's foreword). Modern times renowned literature historian Mr. Zheng Zhenduo assessed it highly and juxtaposed it with"Dream of the Red Chamber","The Scholars"the middle period three great novels.However there has not been one book published but over 40 research paper since it was written more than 200 years ago in Mainland China. With the prosperous of modern times literature research only minority history of literature and history of novel have concerned it. This is not very symmetric with its literary value as a book of over 600 thousand words. The research work should be development deeply. This article plans to make a more comprehensive research and analyze upon the research foundation of predecessor and the eminent scholars.The full text besides"Introduction", is divided seven chapters."Introduction"discussed"the topic selecting significance","the studying history and the present situation of this article"and"the content and method". It combed by the numbers the history and present study situation in the century, pointed out the achievement and insufficiency in its study, and this article put forword its study content and method according to the insufficiency.Chapter 1"The Author And Creation of The Wizard of Oz", it includes"the textual research and analysis to the author"and"the process of writing". The first part is to research the author's ancestral home, discourse all his life,refute both of the"Jiangnan"and"Shanxi"standpoints, agree with Zheng Zhenduo's viewpoint which thought Li Baichuan might be from Taian, Shandong, and provide new evidence for it. The second part is to discusse the writing process and spread of "The Wizard of Oz" , and count its all kinds of edition until now which are nearly one hundred times.Chapter 2"The Textual Research And Analysis of The Edition", it includes"states and research of the edition","study on the block-printed edition","the discussing between the handwritten copy and block-printed edition"three contents. The first part summarizes the edition situation of"The Wizard of Oz"in Qing Dynasty. It also introduces a new discovered kind of copy named"The Wizard of Oz With Undefiled Cut And Pictrues Printed in Ealry Years of the Republic of China". According to the comparative studies the second part draws the conclusion: the block-printed book was the revise book and not the simple one.The revise author was not Li Baichuan, but some one else. In the extant three kinds of block-printed books, the edition of Daoguang decade had the most errors, maybe it was not the earliest block-printed book. The third part draws a conclusion :the handwritten copy was superior to the block-printed book as a whole.Chapter 3"Major Idea And Connotation", it includes"textual researching of the major idea"and"stating of connotation"two contents. The first part shows us"The Wizard of Oz"regarded learning Taoism as its major idea, casting his bread upon the waters was the only way to be a immortal being. So it described and reflected the reality consciously with enrich real life content and intense political and cultural breath, which increased its value. Li Baichuan had the strong aim of reflecting and interfering life by his works"The Wizard of Oz"."The connotation states theory"believed that it was the book which carried on the introspection and judgment with the novel form to the real life. This also showed the author's responsibility and creation intention of the specific historic condition. Leading character Leng Yubing's helpful interposing in reality reflected the author's Confucianist mood of caring for and helping the common people.Chapter 4"The Textual Research And Analysis of'Immortal Trace'". It includs"Taoist Huolong","the persons who were cultivating virtue in order to become an immortal","the way to an immortal"three parts of four contents. This chapter according to"the literature is the human study", takes the character as the center, tests and discusses Taoist Huolong was the the chief founder and archbishop of entire writing"the immortal trace". Leng Yubing was the key player and the central clue in this book. And then Talks about Leng Yubing and so on seven characters in turn. These characters had abundant and complicated connotation. They not only serviced for the book's major idea but also were the real appearance of different stratification or the side human nature and had the certain inspiration significance to the life.Chapter 5"The Textual Research And Analysis of'Green Wild'". It includs"offical circles","scholars'circle","ordinary townsfolk","female"four contents. This chapter also takes the characters as the center just like Chapeter 4. It concludes that "The Wizard of Oz" gave leading character Leng Yubing wide green wild for his cultivating virtue in order to become an immortal. The novel molded all kinds of figure such as the offical circles, scholars'circle, ordinary townsfolk and female. They reflected thoroughly and comprehensively the Ming and Qing Dynasties social reality, such as the writing of offical circles surpassed "Exposure of the Offical World", the writing of ordinary townsfolk was almost as excellent as "The Golden Lotus", it had rich social value and significance.Chapter 6"Narrative Strategy". It includes"the narrative frame","the plot pattern","briefly discusses on'the half part'"three contents."The narrative frame"believed its frame and even the more character group's establishment used"one"and"six"figure. It included god evil spirit, the worldly affairs, the history three parts vertically and horizontally interweaving."The plot pattern"believed that its"three constructs","three duplicate plots"extremely structured stories were the strict narrative system."Briefly discusses on'the last half part'"believed that the last half part was guite better than those of the traditional traditional novels. It dispirited their shortcoming but"left it more wonderful". This was the most successful among the ancient Chinese novels.Chapter 7"Literature Succession". It includes"'The Wizard of Oz'and'four big wonderful books'","'The Wizard of Oz'and other previousgeneration literatures","The Wizard of Oz'and American Frank's novel of the same name"three contents. The first part discussed this novel's same characteristic with"four big wonderful books"in structure ,theme and so on. The second part tests its certain stories'origin, its development and innovation. The last part founds Frank's"The Wizard of Oz" was translated to the same name with Li Baichuan's novel, this showed that they had some similarity. And this also reflected Li Baichuan's novel had unique influence to the American literature.Conclusion:"The Wizard of Oz"was a noticeable novel with the unique content and style. it was finished at almost the same time in Qianlong years Qing Dynasty with"The Scholars","Dream of the Red Chamber","Branch road Lamp". They had certain aspect achievement, therefore it might be called with the other three novels"the four great works in Qianlong".