인터넷과 매체-중국의 인터넷 문학에 관한 보고

Abstract

Writing media have an influence on the whole process of literary production and consumption. It has been changed from jiagu(甲骨), jinwen(金文), zhujian(竹簡) to paper in Chinese writing history. Now, according to the rapid development of technology, Internet rises up as a new writing media. It was American-Chinese who lead up to the way of network literature. Since Chinese become to use internet in 1994, network literature has been increasing. Especially from 1998 to 1999, network literature was spread rapidly. Some of journalists and scholars described excitedly it as “the advent of the era of popularization in writing”, “the possibility of anti-utilitarian writing”, others mocked internet as “the mass-production place of beautiful women's writing.” However, the number of internet users is too few to say “the advent of the era of popularization in writing”, and because of commercialization of writers and internet sites, literature is being actively involved with markets, and it is impossible for Chinese women to access to the internet owing to their limited education and economics. Yet, in the light of development in literary genre, “network literature” as a new term deserves our attention. Because the new term sometimes indicates the possible mode of future literature. However, in conclusion, it is plausible to assert that internet more augment the inequality of information and culture rather than dissolve it in China.