In the last two decades, the macro genre of fantasy fiction has experienced an incredible development in the People’s Republic of China after its introduction through foreign fantasy literature translations. Despite the huge amount of texts and novels on internet platforms, within Online Literature (wangluo wenxue 网络文学), which has arisen the interest of scholars in China and abroad, this genre circulated also on fantasy literature journals from 2003 to 2013. From these journals, the figure of Qitongren 骑桶人, the pen name of Li Qiqing 李启庆, emerged. After a brief introduction about the first developments of the genre in China, this article analyzes Guixu (归墟 2004), one of the author’s first short stories published in journals, and some of its narrative aspects, identifies its sources and tries to give an interpretation in order to prove that fantasy fiction, as other genres, is not only a kind of escapist and entertainment literature but provides also views and opinions on our world.

La letteratura fantasy in Cina: Guixu di Qitongren / Cella, Gloria. - (2023), pp. 71-91. [10.13133/9788893772921].

La letteratura fantasy in Cina: Guixu di Qitongren

Cella, Gloria
2023

Abstract

In the last two decades, the macro genre of fantasy fiction has experienced an incredible development in the People’s Republic of China after its introduction through foreign fantasy literature translations. Despite the huge amount of texts and novels on internet platforms, within Online Literature (wangluo wenxue 网络文学), which has arisen the interest of scholars in China and abroad, this genre circulated also on fantasy literature journals from 2003 to 2013. From these journals, the figure of Qitongren 骑桶人, the pen name of Li Qiqing 李启庆, emerged. After a brief introduction about the first developments of the genre in China, this article analyzes Guixu (归墟 2004), one of the author’s first short stories published in journals, and some of its narrative aspects, identifies its sources and tries to give an interpretation in order to prove that fantasy fiction, as other genres, is not only a kind of escapist and entertainment literature but provides also views and opinions on our world.
2023
Percorsi in Civiltà dell'Asia e dell'Africa III. Quaderni di studi dottorali alla Sapienza
978-88-9377-292-1
letteratura fantasy; Qitongren; letteratura cinese contemporanea
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La letteratura fantasy in Cina: Guixu di Qitongren / Cella, Gloria. - (2023), pp. 71-91. [10.13133/9788893772921].
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