Region - Educational Research and Reviews

As a milestone work of Chinese science fiction literature, the application of temporal narrative and visual symbols in the novel The Three-Body Problem has become the key to the adaptation from literary text to image. This paper intends to discuss the inheritance and innovation of the aesthetic style of The Three-Body Problem from the perspectives of the non-linear structure of temporal narrative and the metaphor of visual symbols. Through the comparative analysis of the narrative mode, temporal and spatial background and key image symbols of novels and film & television works, we can not only see the reproduction of the hard core of science fiction in the film & television adaptations, but also explore the aesthetic tension between the two. Through the time clues, the combing of The Three-Body Problem, the juxtaposition of historical mirror images and the shaping of visual images, this paper not only reproduces the grand imagination of "cosmic sociology", but also forms more correlation with the current context, and opens up new possibilities for the imaging of science fiction IP.