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Chinese boxes are a set of boxes of graduated size, each fitting inside the next larger box. A traditional style in Chinese design, nested boxes have proved a popular packaging option in the West for novelty or display reasons. The Russian matryoshka doll is a modern interpretation of this form. As with the above example, such Chinese nested boxes have inspired similar forms of packaging around the world, but also have found use as a figurative description, providing an illustrative example to demonstrate situations of conceptually nested or recursive arrangements. In literature a Chinese box structure refers to a frame narrative, a novel or drama that is told in the form of a narrative inside a narrative (and so on), giving views from different perspectives. Examples include Plato's dialogue ''Symposion'', Mary Shelley's 1818 novel ''Frankenstein'', Jostein Gaarder's ''The Solitaire Mystery'', and Joseph Conrad's ''Heart of Darkness''. ==See also== *Recursion *Mise en abyme *Matryoshka doll 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chinese boxes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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