A Study On The Images Of Famous Shanghai Prostitutes In Novels In Late Qing Dynasty And Early Republic Of China

After the opening of the port in Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty,with the deep national crisis,the women who had long been lurking under the feudal p atriarchal power for the first time emerged from the historical surface and were elevated to an unprecedented position.Women in the society were completely different from the traditional.Values and feminism.The prostitute Image,as a long-standing female image in the history of literature,and as the most active female image in the late Qing Dynasty,presents completely different aesthetic characteristics.Different from the ideal paradigm of classical prostitutes with complete talents and brilliant colors,the famous prostitutes in the late Qing Dynasty gradually took off the halo of beauty and talents,and developed towards popularization and mediocrity;unlike the elegant functions of classical prostitutes singing and dancing,In the late Qing Dynasty,prostitutes highlighted a more practical function—entertainment communication.In the context of a.unique commodity economy,they gradually degraded the traditional connotation and function,Witih the identity function of communicative flowers,they flourished in,the commercial.soc'iety of the late Q ing D ynasty.A unique landscape of Shanghai and Shanghai Ocean Field:Therefore,this article takes the "professionals of communicative flowers" in the novels of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China as the research object,and uses the feminist criticism theory as a reference to explore the female values,female desires,and gender relations in the image of famous prostitutes in the late Qing Dynasty.The aesthetic change of this subject has unearthed the female subjective consciousness characterized by independence,initiative,and dominance,and further explored the aesthetic value and significance of the classical and modern junction hidden behind their notoriety.Th.e thesis is divided into four parts.The introduction gives an overview of the origin of the article,the current status of research at home and abroad,and methods of research.The.first chapter analyzes the social and historical reasons for the image of famous prostitutes in the late Qing Dynasty from the perspective of historical materialism,analyzes the uniqueness of the objective conditions of the famous prostitutes in the late Qing Dynasty,and reveals the reasons for the aesthetic change of female images in the novel.This chapter includes the prosperity of a commercial society,the development of the concession and the change of social climate.The second chapter analyzes the two typical images of famous prostitutes in the late Qing Dynasty from the perspective of.femini.sm,namely transcendent female images and rebellious female images,both of which reveal women's aesthetic changes about their own values and desires,showing female subjective consciousness Sprout and extension of self-will.The third chapter analyzes the aesthetic value and significance of famous prostitutes.in the late Qing Dynasty from the perspective of feminism and literary aesthetics.Following the second chapter,the female will expressed by self-worth and self-desire in the image of a famous prostitute in the late Qing Dynasty gave b irth to the factors of modern new culture,that is,the socialization of the femal'e image and the equality of gender status from both social and emotional aspects,It reflects the transition from old to new aesthetic culture in the context of business and.industry.At the same time,the vivid thre.e-dimensional and individualized prostitutes images portrayed in the novels of the late Qing Dynasty and the early period of the Republic of China overturned the traditional feminization models and characteristics,showing typical and Realistic and realistic aesthetic characteristics,This aesthetic characteristic is a factor of modern aesthetic form,which reflects the emancipation of personality of the new aesthetic spirit,the pursuit of realistic and realistic value,and reflects the transformation of aesthetic form at the time of the transition between classical and modern.