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Men and Women in Qing Dynasty China: Gender in a Dream of Red Mansions

(australia) Li Mulan

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"A Dream of Red Mansions", one of China's most famous novels, has generated considerable criticism in both Chinese and Western academic circles. The novel narrates the intricate life details of an aristocratic family in the Qing Dynasty and is full of information about gender rules. For example, this book describes in detail how gender privileges are maintained through a series of gender discourses and how the contradictions caused by these privileges are mediated. This book cites gender as a basic category in the structure of social systems and develops analysis on this basis. In the following chapters, the author will interpret the text of "A Dream of Red Mansions" from a gender perspective, sorting out the efforts made by Red Studies critics in different periods to interpret and interpret "A Dream of Red Mansions" and the gender\u002F political discourse hidden behind such efforts.