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Jin Yong's Martial Arts Chivalry Outlook Theory

Posted on:2006-11-25Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360155476172Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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"Jin Yong Boom" is a kind of the surprising literary phenomenon in Chinese contemporary literary world. It owns extremely numerous of readers and lasts long time, covers vast regions. It is because the chivalrous view, a kind of cultural spirit, which is refined out from the broad and profound ancient civilization and rooted deeply in Chinese people' s mind, facilitates Jin Yong Boom' s production and continuation. Along with the different writers' thoughts of different times, Jin Yong kung fu novel' s chivalrous view experienced following processes: sprouting, definitude, polarization, straying, losing, maturation. Among Jin Yong' s kung fu novel, to see injustice on the road and draw sword to help the victim, to keep faith, not to apostatize in the time of stress, not to curry favor with the powerful, sticking to the normal quality, A fault confessed is half redressed, do something for country and people, to pursuit the free personality and life form the basic connotation of the chivalrous view.In the early 1990s, experiencing a violent political turbulence, China began to change greatly. In 1980s, Chineseintellectuals' self-trust, self-esteem, survival significant, ideal and imagined status, which they arranged painstakingly, were canceled mercilessly by the society. Their holy mission, solemn and stirring consciousness and ultimate ideal lose their significance instantly. All these make them confuse, they don' t know how to do. The political demands reflected in the literature caused Chinese writers to be in a state of "losing words" . They didn' t to be in the "brink-of status" in the consumer times. Keeping the "the spirit of esteeming chivalry" in the mind, they try to gain the right to speak of the time through the research of JinYong' s kung fu novel. In this changing social period, a serious of social questions appeared inevitably, such as Value disorganization , human rights replace the law, corruption, peasant, village and agriculture question, unemployment, inequality between rich and poor, which aroused discontents among people. So "spirit of esteeming chivalry" hided deeply in Chinese people' s mind broke out. The "chivalrous view" appeared in Jin Yong' s novel, surpassed the traditional novel' s explanation of "weed out the wicked and let the lawabiding citizen live in peace" ,complicated human nature, loyalty, and dependence on honest and upright official. It is correspond with Chinese intellectuals and common people' s mind, and was accepted generally. So "Jin Yong Boom" appeared, and his novels and thoughts lasted so far, and its vista of research also seems well.
Keywords/Search Tags:Jin Yong, kung fu novel, chivalrous view, and general dissertation
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