A Comparative Study of ‘City’ and ‘Hai-Mo City’ Series in Xi-Guo Zhang's Science Fiction / 張系國科幻小說「城」與「海默城」系列比較研究

碩士 / 國立成功大學 / 中國文學系 / 106 / The father of Taiwanese science fiction, Xi-Guo Zhang (1944- ), was good at discussing profound issues by his clear writing style and established a powerful historical view of civilization to form his unique ‘Science Fiction of the Zhang’(張氏科幻). In 1983, he started to write the ‘City’ Series trilogy(「城」系列), and the second set of science fiction ‘Hai-Mo City’ Series(「海默城」系列)was completed in 2017. After a few decades, the world of ‘Hu Hui’(呼回)civilized science fiction was constructed. This thesis focused on Zhang’s latest period of sci-fic ‘Hai-Mo City’ to look back his early sci-fic works and explored his sci-fic writing of the ‘Hu Hui World’.

The thesis mainly used the way of close reading and discussed Zhang’s pre- and post-period of literary style by the using of narrative skills, sci-fic materials and etc. In the first chapter, the problematic statement, literature review, and research method will be introduced. In the second chapter, the author analyzed the rise and extension of ‘Hu Hui world’ from the thinking of Zhang’s place in Taiwanese literature field and explored the meaning of ‘Hu Hui World’ by his two short story that ‘‘Love in a Fallen City’’(傾城之戀) and ‘‘The City of Bronze’’(銅像城). Furthermore, Zhang’s writing of the two series of ‘City’ and ‘Hai-Mo City’ will be defined. In the third chapter, the author will contrast the ‘City’ and ‘Hai-Mo City’ to conclude Zhang’s writing features, extension ,and transformation by disserting the narrative skills under the frame of ‘Chinese science fiction’, the space of the three different cities in the story, and Zhang’s view of macro-history and personal history between his two writing periods. In the fourth chapter, the thesis mainly contrasted the sci-fic materials that using in the two series. The earlier concept of ‘Time Traveling’ and the recent idea of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and ‘Virtual Reality’ were presented out the unique aesthetics and synchronous feature in the sci-fic genre. In the conclusion, the author generalized the comparison of ‘City’ and ‘Hai-Mo City’ series and elaborated the limitations and prospects of this thesis.

Key words: Xi-Guo Zhang, Science Fiction, Hu-Hui World, and Comparative Study

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/106NCKU5045011
Date January 2018
CreatorsWan-NiCheng, 鄭宛妮
ContributorsMei-Tzu Tsai, 蔡玫姿
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format112

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