Проблемы литератур Дальнего Востока. Часть 1

Секция 2 • Panel 2 Проблемы литератур Дальнего Востока. Т. 1. 2018 242 ᘥᶘઘ㘠ᨀ䗷˄ǉѝഭ∄䖳᮷ᆖǊ ࠺ࡋ ਧㅜ 亥˅ˈྲᱟᾲᘥˈ㻛⌅ഭᆖ㘵 ᗧ࡙㙦ቄ௫Ѫ൘≁᯿᮷ᆖ˄ത້ѻ޵˅ǃ∄䖳᮷ᆖ˄䐘䗷ത້˅ѻਾˈ儈 Ҿത້ѻкⲴᖒᘱǄᆿབྷǃ༞䱄ˈᆳ൘ ޛ ॱᒤԓⲴ⢩↺䈝ຳѝ⭏䮯䎧ᶕˈ তᶱ᱃Ҿ㻛᜿䇶ᖒᘱ䈍䈝Ā᭦㕆āˈᡀѪḀ⿽ኅ⧠Ā≁᯿ā㠚ؑⲴĀᖒ䊑ā Ѽᢈ䛖Ǆ Xun Liu (Trinity College Dublin. Ireland, UK) Novel Readings of Chinese Classical Literature: Linguistic Approach to The Dream of Red Chamber The Chinese classical novel, The Dream of the Red Chamber, has been academically acknowledged as the cultural representative of the Manchu nobility class. However, the socio-political allusions and cultural references prove difficult to be fully expressed through translation. Moreover, the abstruse cultural features and the conversational logic that frequently appeared in the novel prevent the non-native readers or readers who are unaware of the Manchu nobility culture from a deeper understanding. Thus, this research means to set up a linguistic bridge that may surpass such difficulties. The purpose of this paper is to decipher the cultural features selected from Dream of the Red Chamber, in other words, the words and the specific narrative logic that are untranslatable or generally misunderstood in translations for their rich and specific cultural features beneath. In this paper, the writer means to present a novel perspective to decipher Chinese classical literature. Through adopting linguistic methodology, not only the cultural features can be deconstructed into linguistic analysis, making it understandable despite the existing cultural barrier; but also it provides a linguistic media to fully explain the original meaning. Since the Manchu nobility culture can be esoteric, because of the cultural strangeness and distance of the time. This paper will trace back to the historical and cultural backgrounds of the cultural features, which will be done by text analysis. Keywords: The Dream of the Red Chamber; Chinese Classical Literature; Linguistic Approach; Manchu Nobility Culture. Introduction Hóng Lóu Mèng (The Dream of the Red Chamber), the classical Chinese literary masterpiece is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. The novel was written during the middle of 18th century in Qing dynasty and was firstly published anonymously in 1792. This special period witnessed ‘the transition