关键词: 中国故事, 征引类型, 叙事研究, 交流互鉴

Abstract: The “Chinese stories” widely circulating in world literature are a manifestation of China's cultural soft power. These “Chinese stories” mostly originate from China, and after being introduced to foreign countries, are re-created by foreign writers and integrated with the essence and cultural characteristics of foreign literature, becoming new works that bridge Chinese and foreign literatures. This paper makes a preliminary analysis of this process, categorizing the adaptation and re-creation of “Chinese stories” by foreign writers into five main types: full absorption, modified interpretation, adapted transformation, assimilative localization, and complete reconstruction. At the same time, combined with the theory of narratology, we analyze four narrative paradigms in the process of reconstructing Chinese stories in foreign countries, and combined with the attractiveness of Chinese stories in terms of artistic achievements, cultural values and discourse function, we analyze the artistic inspiration, cultural connotation and cultural values that Chinese stories have provided for the literatures of different countries. This paper argues that the citation of “Chinese stories” in world literature not only spreads the voice of China, but also promotes the exchange of Chinese and foreign cultures and mutual learning as well as the development of world literature.

Key words: Chinese stories, types of citation, narrative research, exchange and mutual learning