Pen Names in the "Seventeen Years&nbsp;Period" and the Ecology of Contemporary Chinese&nbsp;Literary&nbsp;Criticism

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Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2017, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (3) : 17-28.

Modern and Contemporary Literary Theory and Criticism

Pen Names in the "Seventeen Years Period" and the Ecology of Contemporary Chinese Literary Criticism

Kou Pengcheng

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It is a common phenomenon to use a pen name when a writer publishes his critical works in China's "seventeen years period". There are several causes: 1. the author worries that his work is not mature; 2. the author is not confident of his reputation; 3. the author intends to express particular ideas. Underneath these apparent causes are deeper psychological motivations: 1. to express opposite ideas to someone else’s; 2. to criticize a friend or a teacher; 3. to publish politically alternative works; 4. to reinforce the validity of criticism with another name; 5. to express special aims. Because of politics, ideology and individual personalities, some authors choose pen names on their own, and some others are forced to do so. The psychology of using a pen name in the seventeen years periods reveals a complicated ecology of Chinese literary criticism.

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pen names / psychological mechanism / literary criticism / ecology / the seventeen years periods

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Kou Pengcheng. Pen Names in the "Seventeen Years Period" and the Ecology of Contemporary Chinese Literary Criticism[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2017, 37(3): 17-28

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