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New Discussion On The Female Images Of The Romance Of Three Kingdoms

Posted on:2017-03-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J D ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330512951126Subject:Chinese international education
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The Romance of The Three Kingdoms,also known as The reflection kingdoms,is China's first long defects in historical novels.It reflects the period nearly a century from the Yellow Turbans Uprising,which happened in the Ages of the Eastern Han Dynasty when the Emperor Han Ling in power(AD 184),to the first year of the Taikang Period of Early Jin Dynasty when the Emperor Wu in power(AD 280).During this time,the three kingdoms Wei,Shu and Wu had a series of political and military battles.Says from the characters' gender ratio,The Romance of The Three Kingdoms is undoubtedly a man's epic.But the portrayal of the 94 women with distinctive features play an irreplaceable role in the novel.This is an important factor for the success of the novel.The female images of The Romance of The Three Kingdoms are rich in sources.Part of the female images continue to use the description of their character and stories in The Annals of San Guo and the History of the Later Han Dynasty,and so on.The other part of them are carefully shaped by the author,some are reworked to the images in The Annals of San Guo,some are based on the folk story or the traditional opera about the three Kingdoms age.This paper make a comparison about the portray of the female images between The Romance of The Three Kingdoms and The Annals of San Guo.And then classify them from three parts:female images who completely from The Annals of San Guo,women who support the Liu Han's political power and the other female images the author shaped.Then the paper analyses the typical female images,who are loyal,brave,intelligent,and so on,to explain the author's traditional and advanced view of women.In chapter 2,it has a brief analyses about the reason of formation for the author's view on female,conclude that in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties,Confucian moral is affected and impacted by the minority cultures(especially Mongolian culture)and civic culture,the whole society hope for the equality between the sexes and the beauty of women.At the end of the essay,it lists the variety of ways which The Romance of The Three Kingdoms culture spread through,for example the media,film and television,game,paintings,and so on.And it analyzes not only their positive roles on the spread of this culture,but also their negative effects.So,the article designs a teaching lesson plans about the spread of The Romance of The Three Kingdoms' female images in the Chinese as a foreign language classroom,clear the female images' depicting deviation in cultural transmission,make the women culture of The Romance of The Three Kingdoms spread both at home and abroad to achieve its real historical significance and value.And then make foreign students a deeper understanding of the meaning and connotation to shape the female images in the novel,so as to truly realize the ideological diversity of various periods in China,understand the real China.
Keywords/Search Tags:The Romance of Three Kingdoms, The Annals of San Guo, Female images, Cultural communication
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