1. 研究目的与意义（文献综述）

chinese immortal and chivalrous online novel, usuallycalled chinese fantasy novel (a genre sometimes called "xianxia"in china), has been popular in china since2003, when the largest chinese network literature website, qidian.com, was built. the development of chinese internetliterature is closely related to that of internet technology. meanwhile a largeinflux of capital promote the internet literature market. as the main school ofinternet literature, the chinese immortal and chivalrous online novel hasattracted billions of chinese readers. according to the ranking "the top20 popular internet novels in 2015", which was rolled out by the chinesewriters association in 2016, more than 1/3 novels belonged to the school ofchinese immortal and chivalrous online novel.

in 2015,the chinese immortal and chivalrous online novel became popular in northamerica. it has attracted millions of english speaking fans during two years. atpresent wuxiaworld.com has become the largest gathering place of fans and the dailypageviews reach up to 5 millions. and it has become a cultural phenomenon.

up to now,there are many literary analysis works on the chinese immortal and chivalrousonline novels from the chinese culture perspective. they tend to conclude the popularityto these factors: the beauty of the chinese myths and legends; the metaphor forthe competitive society; the strong sense of substitution; the influence of thetraditional kung fu novels and so on. zhou zhixiong insists that theliterariness of chinese immortal and chivalrous online novel originates fromthe traditional kung fu novels. in the article the thriving kungfu and fantasy network novels (兴盛的网络武侠玄幻小说)，he sorts out the developing skeleton of network literature and he issurprised to find that the capital market plays an important role in theprocess of internet literature market's becoming perfect. while zeng shaowuprefers to owe the most important factor which led to the popularity of the chineseimmortal and chivalrous online novel to the internet technology. in the paper a study on the current situation of network(网络小说发展现状研究)，he regards network media as " the material gene" of internetliterature. mao ni, a famous chineseimmortal and chivalrous online novel writer, thinks that compared withtraditional literature, network literature is closer to the readers because ofits fierce competition. except for quality of works, there is not any factor thatcan impede the success of network literature works. thereaders can vote for the best and against the low quality directly, whileinterpersonal connections and publishers can easily bury talents in thetraditional literature.

2. 研究的基本内容与方案

research contents:

a. the popularityof chinese immortal and chivalrous online novel

1.wuxiaworld.com and gravity tales

3. 研究计划与安排

before 20th january: settlement of the title

before20thmarch: submission of the outline

before25th april : submission of the first draft

4. 参考文献（12篇以上）

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2. kenneth fearing, “daggerof the mind,”. http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/fearingk-daggerofthemind/fearingk-daggerofthemind-00-h.html，accessed on 25th, dec.2016-12-28

3. lu suquan. areport on the translation of tales of a fourth grade nothing(excerpts)[d]. qufunormal university. 2016