英文摘要
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The modern-day study of Chinese classical fiction contains four main approaches: 1. Comparative Bibliography: to identify the true and false, the merit and the defect. 2. Literary Criticism: to interpret a context on the aesthetics. 3. Sociology Criticism: to value how a fiction practice on a political level. 4. Historical Reference: to alienate from literature and explore the culture and the community that the context reflects. In spite of the approaches, this thesis aims a perspective which studies the context itself. That is to say, a fiction is reviewed as a creation of the society which represents a certain culture background. A pure literature departmentalism is not considered, but how the connotation and the appearance of the fiction was manufactured. This innovative approach is to indicate that within all canons of Chinese classical fiction, there exists the "Culture Ingredientability." A context is not designate to one specific orientation. In the quest of research, a context was produced by many different authors, modified in historical timeline, and recreated with different values. There is no way to identify the author, nor to define a specific genre, its content is open and fluent. Thus the process of revealing a context, one will find the representation of the social reality. A fiction therefore is the negotiation of cultural merits with multiple ingredients which reflects the panorama of the society.
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