Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

No.2, 2023

 

Routineness and Non-Routineness: The Position and Power Differences between Chinese and Western Classical Drama Cultures

(Abstract)

 

Zhang Han

 

The different roads of civilization between the West and China, as well as the different modes of social production and life, result in huge differences in the internal causes of the development, and production and consumption characteristics of Chinese and Western classical dramas, form different social needs, cultural supplies, and aesthetic functions, and has its own cultural position and power in the structure and trend of social and cultural forces. From the perspective of the structural significance of non-daily life and daily life, Western classical drama regards itself as the spokesperson of gods in the social dominance of religion and spiritual axis of gods. Chinese opera lies in a fundamental and dominant position of daily life, and its cultural nature mainly presents as the characteristics of human relations.