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- Title
TOWER OF MYRIAD MIRRORS: THE FIRST BL 'QUICK TRANSMIGRATION' NOVEL?
- Authors
Aiqing Wang
- Abstract
Journey to the West is adulated as one of the Four Great Classical Novels in China, which has inspired a veritable cornucopia of sequels and adaptations. Tower of Myriad Mirrors (aka A Supplement to Journey to the West) composed during late Ming (1368-1644) is one of the three most illustrious sequels in pre-modern literature, in that it is characterised by vivid imagination and creativity, Buddhist ethos and philosophical thoughts, as well as biting satire on political reversals and societal predicaments in the 17th century. More significantly, Tower of Myriad Mirrors manifests psychological insights and features enigmatic dreams, which might have inspired a subgenre dubbed as 'Quick Transmigration' in China's online literature. To be more specific, Tower of Myriad Mirrors is parallel to web-based BL (Boys Love) fiction under the category of Quick Transmigration, in terms of their analogous settings, storylines and characters. In this sense, Tower of Myriad Mirrors can be regarded as a prototypical BL novel concerning 'quick transmigration'.
- Subjects
FICTION; POLITICAL satire; PSYCHOLOGICAL literature; JOURNEY to the West (Book); 17TH century literature; CHINESE literature; BOYS' love (Genre); TOWER of Myriad Mirrors (Book)
- Publication
Logos & Littera: Journal of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Text, 2021, Issue 8, p38
- ISSN
2336-9884
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.31902/LL.2021.8.1c