《庚子国变弹词》与晚清世变书写

The Calamity of China in 1900: A Tanci and the Writing of Vicissitudes in the Late Qing Dynasty

在叙写庚子国变的晚清时事文学作品中,李伯元的《庚子国变弹词》以说唱体书写重大时事,并在涵容史实、描写事变诸方面较为齐全,成为其中颇为引人注目的一部。以是作为代表的庚子叙事文学,集中体现了当时民众对于此一家国劫难的认知与判断,反映了存在于底层社会的生动复杂的观念世界,从中亦可见出世变与文学的意义关联。

Among the current affairs’literary works on the calamity of China in 1900(the year of Gengzi)in the late Qing Dynasty,Li Boyuan’s The Calamity of China in 1900:A Tanci,which describes important current affairs in the rap style,is quite complete in terms of historical facts and events description,and is therefore rather eye-catching.Gengzi narrative literature,represented by this work,embodies the cognition and judgment of the people at that time on the calamity of China,and reflects the vivid and complex conceptual world existing in the underclass,from which we can see the relevance of vicissitudes and literature.