The Research To The Literature Works Of A Review Of The Times

The newspaper A Review of the Times has been created by Lin Lezhi whose were sent by American church to China spread gospel in the late Qing. Although the creation of this newspaper is for the Christian, but it exerts significance influence on the modernize germination of China. Not only the article about Western culture had been published in the A Review of the Times, but the newspaper publication some literature content, which have very high value in the culture and history for the researchers, and no one have ever noticed it. If the literature contents of A Review of the Times can be analysis and interpretation, we not only can find the works itself meaning and connotation, also have better understanding to this publications. This works to some extent reflects the understanding of literature in the group of missionary and Chinese Christian. It also have benefits for the study of relationship between Chinese literature developing in the 19 th century and their literature written.Chapter one is mainly introduce A Review of the Times which makes readers have comprehensive catch to its born, develop and decline. Chapter two is mainly give a definite to literature and through it category all the works. Chapter three and Chapter four will research the works from contents and aesthetics respectively. In chapter three, all the works can be divided as religious doctrine works and non-religious doctrine works according to the Christian’s color. The chapter four is analysis literature works of A Review of the Times’ aesthetic feature. The most concerned feature in literature works of A Review of the Times is combining Chinese tradition literature form with western Christian thought and values in the works. This feature shapes the literature works of A Review of the Times and aesthetics values also depend on it. Chapter five will analysis non-literature text’s literature worth which have higher appreciation than other works in the newspaper, such as narrative or biographical texts. The final chapter will evaluation all the literature works of A Review of the Times while summary the meaning of content, form and concept itself.With the help of our research, we can find the creator ’s idea and strategy for AReview of the Times has great influence to literature works. It is necessary that take creator’s idea and strategy into consideration when we explore the happen reason of the works and the feature of content and form.