한국에서의 중국소설 연구(1)

This thesis is written as one of the master plans which overview the accomplishments of Chinese narrative in Korea. Seo Kyung-ho is a outstanding scholar who studied Shan-hai Jing and the theory of Chinese narrative. He's been interested in the origin and evolution of Chinese narrative. According to him, Zhi-guai and Chuan-qi can not be seen as a novel in its own meaning, but as a kind of 'novelistic possibility'. His arguments is based on the belief we should see the Chinese narratives from the modern or contemporary perspectives. But I think that he ignored the historical relativities of the study of Chinese narrative. He was stuck into the contemporary values, so could not see the narratives in the pre-modern stage as itself. Cheong Jae-seo is one of his opponents, has been against Seo's assumption. Cheon's main theory is based on the denial of cultural imperialism which divided all the paradigms of Chinese studies into 'Impact-Response' model. He thought Seo's assumption was closely connected with that. At this point, I really feel so sorry for their argumentation not being developed into a proper one.