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One of the four great caixue (才学) novels in the Qing Dynasty, Li Ruzhen's Jing Hua Yuan (《镜花缘》) is the best in presenting profound scholarship in its narration. Under a scholarship-based mentality, the novel is devoted to displaying the moral dimensions of the scholarship and to seeking a corresponding device for its narrative arrangement. All this makes it possible to have academic accomplishments as its object of narration. The exploration of the novel's theoretical and practical implications in making the theme of academic accomplishments meet the generic requirements of novels is indispensible to an objective evaluation of its contributions to the creation of novels, thus serving as a good channel for viewing the stylistic changes in novels of the Jiaqing and Daoguang Reigns in the Qing Dynasty and its influence on the historical development of Chinese novels.
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One of the four great caixue (才学) novels in the Qing Dynasty, Li Ruzhen's Jing Hua Yuan (《镜花缘》) is the best in presenting profound scholarship in its narration. Under a scholarship-based mentality, the novel is devoted to displaying the moral dimensions of the scholarship and to seeking a corresponding device for its narrative arrangement. All this makes it possible to have academic accomplishments as its object of narration. The exploration of the novel's theoretical and practical implications in making the theme of academic accomplishments meet the generic requirements of novels is indispensible to an objective evaluation of its contributions to the creation of novels, thus serving as a good channel for viewing the stylistic changes in novels of the Jiaqing and Daoguang Reigns in the Qing Dynasty and its influence on the historical development of Chinese novels.
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