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Redefinition to the Researching Value of Romance in the Rain
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Abstract
Qiong Yao, the well-known queen of love story in Taiwan since 1990s, has wrote countless love fairy tales in her works. Romance in the Rain, which was wrote in the first person, is one of the few works of Qiong Yao with a deep sense of history. It depicted decades of China's chaotic history from one angle and employed the rise and collapse of the powerful warlord Lu Zhenhua’s family as a cue. It discussed how people's fortunes changed through time and demonstrated many humanities through the intense character conflicts as well. Romance in the Rain not only reflects Qiong Yao's ideal world but also her real existence. It can be accepted as Qiong Yao’s masterpiece which was inspired by and related to Taiwan's political climate in the 1960s, the rise of Taiwan's realistic literature. This article uses the method of text analysis to study the novel, and explains the customs of “foreign countries and places”, and then transforms this visual and spectacle representation of others into imagined China, which satisfies the needs of Taiwanese audiences at that time. The curiosity of Chinese audiences creates the value of "pan-Chinese" nationalism.
Keywords
Romance in the Rain, Qiong Yao, love story, redefinition, deep sense of history
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Wang,X. (2023). Redefinition to the Researching Value of Romance in the Rain. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,9,142-147.
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