CROSS-CULTURE, TRANSLATION AND POST-AESTHETICS: CHINESE ONLINE LITERATURE IN/AS WORLD LITERATURE IN THE INTERNET ERA

• Authors: Li Zhenling
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In recent years, online fiction has emerged as a new form of Chinese literature, not only with a huge domestic readership, but also as a form increasingly favoured by readers from various countries, becoming a new literary landscape in the world. Whether the emergence of Chinese online literature has had an impact on the existing world literature and its complex relationship with national literature deserves in-depth study. Taking world literature as a theoretical perspective, this paper compares the origins of Chinese online literature and its development history, explores its translation and circulation mechanisms, and probes its relationship with the canon in order to discover potential new constructions of world literature. This article finds that Chinese online literature originated from the Chinese complex of overseas wanderers, and its early writing was characterized by a mishmash of Chinese and Western influences. In the process of its development, Chinese online literature has emphasized the highlighting of traditional Chinese cultural elements, while on the other hand, it has continuously absorbed and localized the essence of world popular literature and culture. Chinese online literature is not Chinese literature in the first place, but the literature of the network. The value of Chinese online literature does not stay at the level of aesthetic value but lies in its unique literary concept of shuang and a post-aesthetic paradigm. The above shows that Chinese online literature is a typical representation of the cultural exchange between China and the West in the Internet era, a post-aesthetic world literature with translation and circulation as its fundamental premise, and a new representative of popular literature into world literature.

Keywords

EN

CHINESE ONLINE LITERATURE; WORLD LITERATURE; NATIONAL LITERATURE; NETWORK; TRANSLATION; INTERNET

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 45 – 61

Contributors

author

Li Zhenling

• Research Fellow College of International Studies, Shenzhen University, Nanhai Dadao, 3688 Shenzhen, China

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4408-0703

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2023.15.3.5