
A Preliminary Discussion on Gender Issues in Ming and Qing Novels
by Xia Wei
About This Novel
This book starts from issues such as gender wars and the formation and development of gender protracted wars in primitive societies. Taking various ancient novels as examples, this book explores the impact of the androcentric gender system in ancient Chinese society on the gender outlook of novel authors from the perspective of novel creation, and its specific manifestation in the creation process. The book discusses how, under the dual view of women (including the two contradictory concepts of a woman's insubordination and a virtuous wife), conflicted and fearful men teach women recklessly, how they create alternative hierarchical classifications of women in the confusion of moral standards, and The novel represents the existential status of both sexes in ancient society; it explores how the author treats real or unreal materials, how they are selected by the novel author, where they are used, and what kind of creative intentions, ideology and gender concepts the author expresses.
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