Journal of Chaohu University ›› 2021, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (1): 71-77.doi: 10.12152/j.issn.1672-2868.2021.01.010

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Humanitarian Writing with the Feelings of Scholar-Officials: On Wang Zengqi's Novel Creation

CHEN Yu:College of Liberal Arts, Anhui University   

  1. College of Liberal Arts, Anhui University, Hefei Anhui 230039
  • Received:2020-09-28 Online:2021-01-25 Published:2021-04-02

Abstract: Wang Zengqi's novels are full of concern, respect and appreciation for people, showing a strong humanitarian spirit. Inheriting the personality of a scholar-official, he became a "Chinese-style lyrical humanist" by combining the traditional value orientation with the heterogeneous factors in his own temperament. Scholar-official's feelings deeply influenced Wang Zengqi's humanitarian writing style. He expressed the concern for the underclass with elegance, constructed the humane ideal with virtue, criticized the reality with gentleness, moistened the secular soul with idle writing, and showed his sense of social responsibility and thought about the quality of life. Based on Wang Zengqi's eclectic ideological characteristics, this paper discusses Wang Zengqi's Chinese-style humanitarian novels from three aspects: accepting humanitarianism, forming Chinese-style humanitarian thoughts under the influence of scholar-officials and writing novel characteristics.

Key words: Wang Zengqi, novel creation, humanitarianism, feelings of scholar-officials

CLC Number: 

  • I247