The Evolution of Chinese Stories Based on the Prototype of Ten Brothers in the English-Speaking World

WU Sujun

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20258210

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WU Sujun. The Evolution of Chinese Stories Based on the Prototype of Ten Brothers in the English-Speaking World[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2025, 8(2): 172-187. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20258210

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WU Sujun. The Evolution of Chinese Stories Based on the Prototype of Ten Brothers in the English-Speaking World[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2025, 8(2): 172-187. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20258210

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The Evolution of Chinese Stories Based on the Prototype of Ten Brothers in the English-Speaking World

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20258210

WU Sujun

Wenzhou Medical University

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WU Sujun is a lecturer at Wenzhou Medical University. She holds a Ph. D. in literature and specializes in Sino-foreign literary and cultural relations.
Received Date: 2024-12-10
Accepted Date: 2025-05-10

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Since the end of the 19th century,Chinese stories based on the prototype of ten brothers have been transmitted to the English-speaking world for more than 130 years.Taking Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding theory as the analytical framework,this article systematically examines the three historical stages of the spread of this story type in the English-speaking world: the “Oriental Spectacle” under the Western Gaze (1890s-1940s),the “Political Allegory” under the domination of the Cold War ideology (1950s-1980s),and the “Pluralistic Reconstruction” in the context of globalization (after the 1990s).Furthermore,it reveals that cultural communication is by no means a neutral transmission of information,but a game between encoders and decoders centered around the construction of meaning.
- Stories based on the prototype of ten brothers,
- encoding/decoding,
- crosscultural communication,
- cultural hegemony

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