A Stylistic Study of Quoted Narrative in Jin, Ping Mei

本课题的目的是从语言学和文体学的角度分析《金瓶梅》中的各种引用叙事，包括引用言语和引用思想，并说明它的发明使晚明白话小说的新文体得以确立。为了实现这一目标，我们在两年的时间里进行了以下几个过程：首先，我们从《金瓶梅》、《辞花》、《崇祯》、《张竹坡》三个主要版本中选取了大量的引用叙事实例。为了更清楚地说明《金瓶梅》的文体创新，我们还对《清平山塘》的故事进行了文献学和文体学研究。由于清平山塘的故事是嘉靖时代现存最古老的白话叙事之一，因此，比较老的例子应该是理解百年后出现的《金瓶梅》的基本假设。因此，我们做了五次演讲，包括四次国际会议，演讲的主题从文体学理论工作到清平山塘故事的书目研究都有不同的主题。此外，我们还在中国最权威的期刊之一的《明清小说研究》上发表了一篇文章，并翻译了刘丽迪的理论著作《翻译国民性：鲁迅与亚瑟·史密斯》。在这些理论和文献学研究的基础上，我们将继续对《金瓶梅》和其他明代白话叙事进行语言学和文体研究。

The goal of this project is to analysis various quoted narratives, both quoted speech and quoted thoughts, used in Jin Ping Mei, from linguistic and stylistic point of view, and to illustrate its invention that enabled the new style of vernacular novels to be established during late-Ming period. In order to achieve the goal, we pursued the following process during the two-year period of this project.Firstly, we picked up broad examples of quoted narratives from the three major editions of Jin Ping Mei, Cihua edition, Chongzhen edition, and Zhang Zhupo edition. In order to illustrate Jin Ping Meis stylistic invention more clearly, we also carried out bibliographical and stylistic research on Qingpingshantang's Stories. As Qingpingshantang's Stories are one of the oldest existing vernacular narratives published in Jiajing era, taking the older examples into comparative consideration should be the essential assumption to understand Jin Ping Mei which appeared a hundred years later.As a result, we made five presentations, including four international conferences, and the topics of presentations vary from theoretical work on stylistics to bibliographical research on Qingpingshantang's Stories. Besides, we published an article on The Journal of Ming-Qing Fiction Studies, one of the most authoritative journals in China, and translated a theoretical work, Lydia Liu's "Translating National Character: Lu Xun and Arthur Smith". On the basis of these theoretical and bibliographical studies, we will continue to work on linguistic and stylistic research on Jin Ping Mei and other Ming vernacular narratives.