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Frontiers of Literary Studies in China

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Front. Lit. Stud. China    2022, Vol. 16 Issue (4) : 589-618    https://doi.org/10.3868/s010-011-022-0031-9
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Natural Science, Legends, and Local Chronicle-Style Novel Pedigree of Guizhou—On Ouyang Qiansen’s Novel Creation
LI Yuchun
School of Chinese Language and Literature, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
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Abstract

Ouyang Qiansen is a writer from Guizhou who is quite influential in the Chinese literary circles of the new century. He has worked hard to rejuvenate the Chinese nation’s literary tradition with modern thinking. This is reflected in the fact that he includes modern geological expertise in his novels, portraying geographical scenery with poetic language, thereby forming a unique narrative style based on modern knowledge and renewing the “natural science” narrative tradition of China’s ancient novels. Moreover, he pays special attention to myriad unusual events and people throughout Guizhou’s history and in reality, and creates typical literary Guizhou characters of all types whereby he revives the “legend” narrative tradition based on historical records or biographies and is typical of ancient Chinese novels. Both the geography-based “natural science” narrative and the people-based “legend” narrative are merged into Ouyang’s local chroniclestyled novel pedigree of Guizhou. By creatively transforming the narrative tradition of local chronicles and local chronicle-style novels of ancient China, in his literary creations, Ouyang manages to revive and reconstruct the Guizhou spirit, which serves as the local expertise and culture.

Keywords Ouyang Qiansen, literary tradition, natural science, legends, local chronicle-style novel pedigree of Guizhou     
Issue Date: 21 April 2023
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LI Yuchun. Natural Science, Legends, and Local Chronicle-Style Novel Pedigree of Guizhou—On Ouyang Qiansen’s Novel Creation[J]. Front. Lit. Stud. China, 2022, 16(4): 589-618.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/flsc/EN/Y2022/V16/I4/589
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