Essays on Jin Yong's Novels

Author: Yan Jiayan
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: Jin Yong's novels have created countless "fans" and left numerous "mysteries." Starting in 1995, the author taught a course titled "Studies on Jin Yong's Novels" at Peking University, conducting multidimensional and multi-aspect academic discussions on Jin Yong's works. The author first explores the role of the chivalrous culture from the perspective of cultural ecological balance, clarifying the long-standing misunderstandings and biases toward wuxia novels in academia. The book comprehensively and systematically examines the "three-dimensional" combination of Jin Yong's novels and the modern spirit of the works, narrative art, tendency toward realism, cinematic techniques, and Jin Yong's connections with traditional Chinese culture, Western literature, and the May Fourth New Literature. It also evaluates Jin Yong's historical significance from the perspective of the conflict between literary sophistication and popular culture. At the end of the book is included "A Quiet Literary Revolution—A Speech at the Honorary Professorship Ceremony for Qian Liangyong at Peking University."
The book not only presents many original insights but also contains a wealth of information, disclosing many valuable materials and important facts for the first time, which is highly helpful for understanding Jin Yong the person and his works. This book is a monograph that conducts academic research on Jin Yong's novels.