Historical Articulation and the Reinvention of the Heroic Image: Review of Chen Yufu's Full-Length Novel Ma Chao from Xi Liang.

Chen Yufu' s full-length novel Ma Chao from Xi Liang continues the vein of popular historical novels and introduces some innovations of Chinese modern times . At the same time, it shares several common features with contemporary historical fiction since the "May Fourth Movement". Based on Wuwei's regional culture in Gansu's Hexi Corridor, it connects Ma Chao with elements such as Li Qian, "The Galloping Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow", Leitai Han Tomb, and "Liangzhou Horses", realizing the historical articalation, and a unity of literature, history, and regional culture is formed in the unfolding and advancement of the plot. In the reconstruction of the hero' s image, Ma Chao from Xi Liang practices the writer's realization of the spirit of China's western literature, that is, China's western literature should be the literature of heroes, and participates in the construction of multiple discourses on China's western literature with a unique point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]