A Study On Female Images Of The Current-Events Drama In Late Ming And Early Qing Dynasties

The current-events drama at the juncture of the Ming and Qing dynasties with strong intervention of reality,have the quality and value of timely and true dissemination of contemporary major social and political events,which expose the situation of disorder of political failure caused by traitor minister dictatorship and partisan wrangle,and record turbulent times with frequent wars caused by the change of the regime between the Ming and Qing dynasties,that provide another way for us to understand the history and women who were ignored by history.According to status,the female images of the current-events drama during late Ming to early Qing dynasty are mainly divided into the women in family of bureaucrat and prostitutes.Under the influence of violence such as migration and warfare,their living space change from inside to outside:from a relatively closed and quiet environment,they are suddenly thrown into an open and turbulent world,and have to be involved in the whirlpool of society,politics and war,either passive compliance highlight weakness or active resistance show strength,but all are with blood and tear,talent and ability deduction of life narrative.Therefore,compared with the traditional Chinese women's life in the peaceful era,the attention and research on the fate of women in troubled times have a more profound and special significance.The article includes four parts:The introduction expounds the topic selection and significance of the paper,and summarizes and comments on the research status of women and the current-events drama at the juncture of the Ming and Qing dynasties.The concept of time about the transition of Ming and Qing dynasties and the connotation of the current-events drama are defined by combing and referring to the related concepts of previous scholars,and accordingly the existing current-events drama in the period of late Ming and early Qing dynasties are examined and the female images involved are analyzed and presented in a list,so as to pave the way for the study of female images of the current-events drama at the juncture of Ming and Qing dynasties.The first chapter is the textual research on the female images of the current-events drama in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.The current-events drama in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties have a strong memoir spirit,in which female images involved are mostly real historical figures.By reviewing the relevant records in official historical materials,folk history notes,local Chronicles,genealogy and epitaph,the real appearance and realistic situation of female groups in the current-events drama in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties are restored.The second chapter discusses the female images of the current-events drama in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties by classification.The female images of the current-events drama in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties are divided into four categories according to the main characteristics:virtuous,loyal,chastest and lubricious,of which the first three types of female images who conform to the Confucian female virtues are positive model consciously shaped by the playwright.The third chapter explores the male perspective of female images of the current-events drama in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.The first section discusses whether the relationship between wives and concubines is harmonious and the relationship between husband and wife is equal in the ethical relationship of scholar-official's family life.From three dimensions of female ability to satirize male inability,female loyalty to revive the Confucian code,gender accommodation to stabilize social order,the second section analyzes the playwright's motivation to praise female heroes.The third section takes the isomorphic writing style of "the virgin and the faithful" and the inverted normative force of "moral power" as the breakthrough point to analysis of the playwright's chastity writing.The last section is on the basis of Confucian "the three obedience" social gender ethics to elucidate the differentiation of the female community.This chapter is to deeply present the male perspective and ethical connotation contained in the female images of the current-events drama in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.The fourth chapter firstly analyzes the use of role narration from the female images of the current-events drama in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.Then,starting with the standardization of role narration,the section interprets reasons for the addition of female roles that don't move the plot forward.