| Summary: | 博士 === 國立東華大學 === 中國語文學系 === 103 === This study focuses on the unique developmental process of novels with themes of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the 20th century. For the investigation on themes, this study attaches importance to two major dimensions – paying attention to external development of literature and clarifying features of novels. Therefore, this paper investigates the background of this rise of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and how the whole story of rise and fall of Taiping inspired writers and the author’s writing in Introduction as the basis for the in-depth investigations in the subsequent chapters. Chapter 2 reviews the results of various studies on Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the political circles and academia in Mainland China and Taiwan from the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China to the late 20th century, in order to understand the overall developmental direction of studies on Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the 20th century. Chapter 3 discusses the causes of rise and fall of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the general status of subsequent transformations. This chapter aims to summarize the features of novels with the themes of Taiping Heavenly kingdom under the transformation of a century. In addition to clearly outlining the process of how the novels with the themes of Hung and Yang changed their objective of creation from adhering to political purposes to pure artistic creation, this chapter also discusses how such themes were still popular after a century and identifies the major chances revealed in creation content and forms. Chapter 4 probes into the creation themes to which writers in the last century attached the highest importance, in order understand how writers developed the frameworks of their own exciting plot changes between historical facts and fictions. Chapters 5 and 6 select several characters jointly favored by writers of all ages from the novels with the themes of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Based on the comparison and analysis on literature and history, these chapters explore the transformation of how novelists switched from history to literature to create the features of characters that are basically not contrary to historical facts and can reflect writers’ creation awareness. The last chapter sums up the said chapters to generalize the creation features derived from the end of century based on the comparison between literature and history in novels with the themes of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. This chapter summarizes the statements of various chapters. It is hoped that, the results of this study may further open the door of literary studies on the novels with the themes of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom based on the results of the existing studies in the field of historical studies.
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