Abstract
Web novels are the main source narratives of contemporary Chinese pop culture content IP, and the ancient style immortal here romance(古風仙俠言情) novel “To the Sky Kingdom” is one of the most successful IP sources of its time. As a genre literature of ancient style immortal here romance, this novel inherits the motif and biological view of traditional supernatural novels(神魔小說), and expands the time and space of the universe of ‘the three life-times of rebirth and three worlds’ by reflecting the needs of modern Chinese popular culture. This paper tried to examine the ‘three reincarnations’ motif inherited from the web novel “To the Sky Kingdom” and the view of life and death embodied by this motif, and to find out how it differs from the view of life and death of traditional culture.
| Translated title of the contribution | A Study on the View of Life and Death of Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture Content IP - Focusing on the Motif of the ‘three reincarnations’ in the Web Novel “To the Sky Kingdom” |
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| Original language | Korean |
| Pages (from-to) | 247-260 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | 문화와융합 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| State | Published - 2023 |