Interpreting John Fryer through New Age Novels Contest

Li, Shuang;  오순방

doi:10.17004/jrcn.2018..54.005

Interpreting John Fryer through New Age Novels Contest

The journal of the research of chinese novels ◽

10.17004/jrcn.2018..54.005 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol null (54) ◽

pp. 155-169

Author(s):

Li, Shuang ◽

오순방

Keyword(s):

New Age ◽

John Fryer

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Inter-Subjectivity and Imagined Sovereignty: John Fryer’s New-Age Novel Contest in 1895 and the Rise of Modern Chinese Novel

Ming Qing Yanjiu ◽

10.1163/24684791-01701005 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 17 (01) ◽

pp. 95-119

Author(s):

Dadui Yao

Keyword(s):

New Age ◽

Modern Chinese ◽

Starting Point ◽

Chinese Fiction ◽

John Fryer ◽

Modern Chinese Fiction

The concept of inter-subjectivity serves as a starting point to discuss a book-writing competition sponsored by John Fryer in 1895 and the rise of modern Chinese fiction. His departure from China the following year had two possible reasons: money and the expectations. The money issue was related to the prompt initiation and excessive expences of this contest; besides, the contest specific requirements contributed greatly to the identity awareness of the Chinese writers. The horizon of one’s expectations touches the problem of subjectivities. A fusion of the expectations of the missionary and those of Chinese literati manifested itself in The New-Age Novel as inter-subjectivity. Nevertheless, the expression of imagined sovereignty of Chinese literati in the works presented at the contest went beyond Fryer’s expectations and gave birth to not only simply a Western impact and Chinese response and a Sino-centric pattern both which served as a spur to the rise of modern Chinese novel.

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