Tang Gaze

The concept of gaze is a philosophical terra, which is taken to research the alternate relationship between the subject and the object. With the theoretical contribution by these philosophers, such as Sartre and Freud, it was finally put forward by Lacan , who said: the gaze of the subject is always dominated by the gaze of the absent object, and a new subject is reconstructed during the process of gaze.With the comprehensive permeation of the modern media , such as television, magazines , films and advertisements, the conspiracy between ocular centrism and modernism made the subject undergoing the infinite torture. These phenomenons lead the philosophers to consider the reconsideration about the vision. The most distinctive characteristic of this theory is that it discovers the split of the subject — "look" and "gaze" , as a result, it could tactically disintegrate the conspiracy between ocular centrism and modernism.Feminism chose the concept of gaze to put forward the "Male gaze" . This concept enables us to discover the unequal position of both sexes, and the women's identification with the male gaze. This dissertation is trying to reinterpret the Chinese classical text by using this concept, and to reveal the potential sexual problems of the Tang legendary stories from three aspects (the gazes from authors to protagonists, the gazes between heroes and heroines, and the gazes from readers to texts). In addition, by using some terminologies of psychoanalysis to annotate the different female images, this dissertation will discuss the problem about how to reconstruct the real female subjectivity. On the base of that, the author hopes this dissertation could provide a new perspective for the comprehension of the Chinese classical texts.