The Communication of Online Romance Novels in the English-Speaking World: Genres, Motivations, and Patterns

Frontiers of Global Sinology

FGS, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026, pp.64-74.

Print ISSN: 3106-5503; Online ISSN: 3106-5511

Journal homepage: https://www.fgsjournal.com

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.64058/fgs260107corne



网络言情小说在英语世界的传播:类型、动因与模式

 

田雪君(Tian Xuejun


摘要:言情小说是中国网络文学英语世界传播的重要类型,其中都市甜宠型与传统融合型作品的传播实绩尤为可观。甜宠文通过建构理想化的恋爱情境,召唤读者在情感代入中达成对资本逻辑的认同;融合古代文化的言情小说,借助对神话、宗教的征用与转化,激活并更新了读者的阅读经验。由此衍生出两种传播模式:一是现代言情引发的“创作模式挪移型”催生了英语原创平台的批量涌现与相似性文本的规模生产,并在本土化实践后出现了生产制度与审美取向上的变异现象;二是古代言情析出的“文化资源汲取型”,发挥了弥合英语言情传统当中的现实性叙写定势与想象性压抑症候的效用

关键词:网络文学;言情小说;英语世界;传播模式

作者简介:田雪君,兰州财经大学外语学院讲师,研究方向:网络文学的国际传播,电邮:tianxuejun96@foxmail.com


Title: The Communication of Online Romance Novels in the English-Speaking World: Genres, Motivations, and Patterns

Abstract: In the international communication of Chinese online literature, romance novels like urban sweet romance and traditional-integrated romance have achieved significant performance. The former evokes English readers’ emotional engagement and acceptance of capitalist logic by constructing romantic scenarios; while the latter, through the appropriation of mythology and religion, activate readers’ reading experiences. This has given rise to two communication models: the “transfer of creative models” triggered by modern romance has spurred the mass emergence of original English platforms and the large-scale production of similar texts, resulting in variations in production systems and aesthetic orientations after localization practices; the “absorption of cultural resources” derived from ancient romance has effectively bridged the realistic narrative patterns and imaginative repression symptoms in the English romance tradition.

Keywords: Online literature; romance novels; English-speaking world; communication models

Author Biography: Tian Xuejun, Lecturer at the School of Foreign Studies, Lanzhou University of Finance and Economics. Research direction: International communication of Chinese online literature. E-mail: tianxuejun96@foxmail.com.


Received: 20 Jun 2025 / Revised: 23 Apr 2026 / Accepted: 24 Apr 2026 / Published online: 30 Apr 2026 / Print published: 30 May 2026.


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