The Study On Male-right Narration Of Liu Xiang's Biography Of Women

Liu Xiang's Biography of Women had the cross-age significance in China. In the literature aspect, it was the first words which had the novel's writing-skill; in the historiography aspect, it started the precedent of mixed-biography body; and in the term of women's lives.it established the feminine's morality standard firstly. And it was also because Biography of Women had so many achievements, there were endless scholars'researches. However, these studies of Biography of Women were often limited to the surface characters of literature and historiography, and the studies which concerning to the narrative model and visual angle were blank. So this paper will focus on the use of narrative visual angle about Biography of Women. Meanwhile, Liu Xiang was a Confucian scholar and a ruler-order's defender in the Western Han Dynasty.So against the chaotic situation in the palaces of the emperor and the imperical concubines, the male's right thoughts were poured into his words. Therefore, from the male point of view to explore the narrative of Biography of Women is the purpose of writing this paper. Of course, as a top intellectual in Han Dynasty,Liu Xiang's words were affected to the ancient and modern Confucian classics studys and other social thoughts essentially. Based on the above, the author will discuss through the following chapters.The first chapter will be inqure into how the women showed in Liu Xiang's patriarchal perspective of the words Biography of Women.The author will discuss it through four sections:the story content, writing-material sources, character images and the implied author. From the perpective of story content, women's everyday deeds were relative to assist husband, teach child, observe rites and stick to women's integrity. From the material sources, it existed for the modification, processing, distortimg even completely changing of the materials when Liu Xiang cited them.From the character images, compared with the women which were emgered in the Book of Songs.Songs of the South. Han Dynasty's accompanied songs and rhyme-proses, the women of Biography of Women had the following features:blurred image, old-fashioned language, empty nature. From the text's implicit view, Liu Xiang publicized the male consciousness by the rulers, Confucian scholars in the words or by the methods of quoting poetry and writing songs.The second chapter will show the women's real lives which were covered in the Biography of Women through the combining of the real lives of women in the Han Dynasty. The author firstly summarized the characteristics of the Western Han Dynasty women's lives:the right to choose marriage, the right to raise divorce, the right to remarry when they were widows or abandoned, the right to engage in political social activeties and participate in economic activeties. Secondly, the author also restored the women's true lives of Biography of Women through the above points. Finally, the author investigated the underlying social and political reasons of Liu Xiang's writing from the combings of Liu Xiang's writing intention, political background, political Confucianism, Yin and Yang opposites thoughts, especially the ancient and modern Confucian classics studys and other social thoughts.The third chapter is to explore that how the ancient and modern Confucian classics studys influence the Liu Xiang's male-writing of Biography of Women.Because Liu Xiang was the pioneer of the ancient Confucian classics studys, and he was influenced to the fighting of ancient and modern Confucian classics studys unavoidably. So the Biography of Women was the literary tension of the contradiction and converging of the two Confucian classics groups'fighting. The author firstly summarized the similarities and differences of the ancient and modern Confucian classics studys. meanwhile the author seeeked to the expressions of the two academic groups'fighting through Liu Xiang himself and his words Biography of Women,especially stressed that the different writing-positions of the two academic groups how influenced Liu Xiang's male's narrative technique in Biography of Women.The fourth chapter is to explore that there were many novel characters in Biography of Women. As the arguments what the words Biography of Women is literary words or historical words in academic community is inconclusive, the author not to make improper comments.But the paper was mainly explored the narrative visual angle of Biography of Women from the perspective of literary works, so many novel natures were carried out to explore for the author.The author insist that the words had novel writing-methods:subjecting structure to determine the story, creating characters deliberately, fabricating the plots. While the structure of Biography of Women also had the novel modes:precendented to create a biography, employing the mainly short-story forms.Of course, as the first general history of women in China, it was even more far-reaching implications for the future generations, a direct result was the appearing of martyr women".In short, the author proceed from Liu Xiang's narrative visual angle, showed the women' lives which were appeared in the male's perpective of Biography of Women firstly.Secondly, showed the women'real lives which were covered in the Biography of Women through the combining of the real lives of women in the Han Dynasty. Finally,explored the implied literary tension deeply through the popular thoughts of the two academic groups in Han Dynasty. Finally, the author assumpted and demonstrated the words'novel character by returning to the surface of the literary works. And the author created this paper also seeked from the social ethics, political thoughts and the perspective of literary genres and other visual angles.