On The Female-Disguising-Herself-As-Male Phenomenon In The Fictions Of The Ming And Qing Dynasties

The thesis is on the female-disguising-herself-as-male phenomenon in the fictions of the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially such as in the short stories of San Yan, Er Pai and Liao Zhai Zhi Yi, the genius-and-beauty novels, Tanci novels, and etc. On the basis of carding the female-disguising-herself-as-male fiction of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the writer considers the phenomenon overall through combining it with the novels, their authors, social thoughts and cultural psychology.The paper has four parts. In the first part, the writer expounds the female-disguising-herself-as-male phenomenon in history and legends, also expounds its influence on literary creation. The author concludes that the phenomenon reflects the real social life from the fact it originates from reality. The author recognizes that the female-disguising-herself-as-male stories became the main materials for the literary imagination and the female-disguising-herself-as-male creation reached the boom during the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth. The author cards the period's the female-disguising-herself-as-male novels and analyses the reasons of the booming of these novels. In the next two parts, the writer draws the story mode from the types, reasons, the endings of the disguisers in view of these fictions' text characteristics. The author also analyses the manifestations of the disguiser's subjective consciousness in the fiction of the Ming-Qing period from both the thoughts and the values. In the last part, the writer makes deep research into the authors' psychology of creating such fiction.