Japanese Modernization and the Emergence of New Fictwn in Early Twentieth Century China
A Study of Liang Qichao
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3620122 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hiroko Willcock (Griffith University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 817-840 |
| Publication date | 1995-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x0001619x |
| OpenAlex | W2100561850 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 6 |
Inspired by Japanese influences among others the late Qing period saw a great surge in the writing of fiction after 1900. The rate of growth was unprecedented in the history of Chinese literature. The great surge coincided with rapid socio-political changes that China underwent in the last fifteen years of the Qing Dynasty. At the psychological level, the humiliating defeat by Japan in 1895 gave rise to a feeling of urgency for reform among some progressively minded Chinese intellectuals. Those reformers came to view fiction as a powerful medium to further their reform causes and to arouse among the people the awareness of the changes they believed China most urgently required. Fiction was no longer considered as constituting insignificant and trivial writings. It was no longer the idle pastime of retired literati composed to entertain a small circle of their friends, or written by a discontented recluse to vent a personal grudge through a brush. The role of fiction came to be defined in relation to its utility as an influence on politics and society and its artistic quality was subordinated to such a definition
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · China · Chinese literature · Economic history · Feeling · Literature · Modernization theory · Period (music · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Recluse · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |