Contemporary revolutionary historical narration can classify into three distinctive but interrelated intersecting types, that is, “quasiepics”, “quasigrowth” and “quasitales”. “Quasiepic narration” was relatively closely associated with mainstream politics, having multiple internal connections with Western tradition of epic writing and Chinese poetics of ancient fiction. “Quasitale narration” was adjacent to market and popular literature, most closely related to Chinese tradition of classical fiction. And “qausigrowth narration” was largely derived from Western conception of fiction, which was the sole legitimate form of intellectual narration in the 17 years. The three abovementioned forms of narration contributed respectively a group of literary works of common or similar narrative structure and aesthetic value.

contemporary revolutionary narration in China; narrative aesthetics; epic; tale; growth fiction