In The Emperor’s Shadow: “Beijing Studies” From A Non-Fictional Perspective

天子脚下：非虚构视野下的“北京学”

Abstract

Abstract

This article starts from the construction of Beijing-school and Shanghai-school novels in the text city, and considers whether the accumulation of Peking/Beijing writing in non-fictional essays, essays, and historical and cultural descriptions is sufficient to reach the research scale of “Beijing Studies”. The “Beijing Writing” is a gap that has been seriously neglected by the history of modern prose. In fact, its quality can completely become an independent research field, and the non-fictional nature of prose “faithfully” retains more humanistic and social elements. Literary texts based on Beijing’s local humanities and customs from the perspective of historical research. It is a pity that urban literature has never been the focus of Chinese literary history or academic circles. Only Shanghai-school novels during the Republic of China awakened the vision of urban culture for a short time. This article reviews the existing research results, and proposes the research route of Beijing writing, which is also a series of leading research papers.

Keywords: non-fiction, prose, Peking, Beijing