Translated Abstract
In 2015, Chinese science fiction stepped into a new orbit with a boom of violent development after Liu CiXin＇s ＂The Three-Body Problem＂ won the ＂Hugo Award＂ which is the top award in the field of international science fiction. The series of ＂Three-Body Problem＂ also gets two million copies of sales volume. The study of Liu CiXin himself and his works also gradually come into sight of literary critics and became a new important research field in academia. With the useing of research technique of the classical narratology and influence study, this paper makes narrative analyses in the level of histoire to explore the narrative structure and skills of this fiction. The origin of Liu CiXin＇s novel style is also studied here.
This paper first makes a brief review of the Chinese science fiction developing from the late Qing Dynasty to the present. In the following three chapters, we study the characters, structures and events with their application at the diegetic level of ＂The Three-Body Problem＂. The first part focuses on analyzing the spate of characters in the trilogy of ＂The Three-Body Problem＂ and sees how Liu Cixin shapes his characters in his works through the way of grouping. In the second part, this paper analyses the status of representative figures in the narrative of this fiction and then clarify the strategy of combining science and the narrative put forward by making science fiction figures core of the story. With the help of the Greimas＇s actant square, the third part makes structure analyses on the array＇s binary relations and studies the way to set the adversarial relationship which makes the theory of the Dark Forest convincing in the story. The last part explore the reasons for the formation of many features in Liu Cixin＇s novel by studying the effect Author Clark made on him and combined with Liu Cixin＇s personal growth experience. By this study, this paper tries to provide some references to the Chinese science fiction creation in the future and enrich the concrete property in the field of studying domestic science fictions.
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