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The Ambiguous Pursuit of Modernity: a Study of Renovated Novels in the Late Qing Dynasty

Wu Zequan

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This book comprehensively uses a variety of methods to study the late Qing novels that have long been ignored by literary history. On the basis of fully possessing the literature and materials, this book restores the creative aspects of the renovation novels, analyzes the creative motivations of the renovation novels, and re-evaluates the status of the renovation novels in the history of modern literature. The above work has the significance of filling academic gaps. The basic idea of ​​​​this book is to understand the renovation novels in the specific era context of novel changes and social and cultural changes in the late Qing Dynasty. The main point of this book is to argue that renovated novels are a trend of creative thought that emerged in response to the "New Novel" movement in the late Qing Dynasty. Renovated novels subversively rewrite classical novels in terms of themes, themes and language narratives. What this rewriting expresses is a modern pursuit of breaking inheritance and pursuing innovation and change. However, due to the constraints of various factors, this pursuit of modernity always presents a contradictory and ambiguous color.