Discuss Gender Reverse' Gender Criticism

Traditional Chinese opera is the most important parts of Chinese culture. Not only drama as literature factor, but also stage performance as acting factor or other parts, it deduces our native culture from its own angle. Stage performance in the whole parts shows richer national characteristic, it not only shows actors'special acting skills and numerous artisans'persevere pursuance in this field, but also includes many artistic phenomena with special touch, and of which gender reverse makes people think over more. It is necessary to study it further from brand-new view and angle because of its profound implication, special touch and rich significance. In present culture atmosphere, the key in further study is to find new points, to explain it fully in brand-new angles of vision and ways and then tap its latent, important significance. This thesis makes careful analysis again from gender criticism angle, pays afresh attention to tap its significance to the development of gender criticism and Chinese feminism, thus supply new information for feminism to step in a new history period , thus promotes it to make its own theory system according to its own characteristic and value system. Gender reverse's gender criticism significance in traditional Chinese opera includes: It testifies, develops and supplements Simone de Beauvior's Le deuxième sexe theory, testifying not only principle on "female is not born, but is acquired", but also male is so with concrete performance; it is also the language tactics with which Chinese feminism theory is founded, and it can supply more powerful language means for Chinese feminism theory's foundation and development. Moreover, it echoes from each other far away with "androgyny "theory, which is put forward by western feminism, and proves further the rationality of the male's feminine and female's masculine existing and developing. Finally, the three factors of gender, class and race support Chinese feminism to step forward into the gender criticism stage in both theory and practice. To make further analysis on the significance of gender reverse's gender criticism, the premise is to know well about the concrete manifestation form, cause, essence and cultural meaning. Generally speaking, gender reverse's manifestation form in traditional Chinese opera performance is gender reverse between actor and type of role. That is to say, the actor is reversed from the role in the story of an opera and its type of role in gender. The causes effecting gender reverse's emerging in traditional Chinese opera performance include ways in reversal thinking, views on philosophy and universe. Taoist aesthetic trend that the female and gentle style, social contradiction disorder and traditional Chinese opera's own special characteristic. , To some extent gender reverse's essence and significance in traditional Chinese opera means that it is Chinese humanity construction strategy, aiming to humanity's perfect, and it is an ideal, strategic pursuance of pursuing perfect humanity from culture angle.