JIANGHAN ACADEMIC ›› 2004, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (1): 43-47.

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“Model Beijing Opera” Narration: Female Revolution Myth in Meditation Light of “the Other”

PENG Song-qiao   

  1. School of the Humanities, Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056,Hubei,China
  • Received:2003-10-28 Online:2004-01-01 Published:2014-02-27

Abstract: Viewing from the angle of feminism, “model Beijing opera” is undoubtedly a rare other-kind version of bisex discourse confrontation in human history of civilization. Most “model Beijing opera” had females as protagonists or main heroic figures. But they lacked in them the proper sex tinge of genuine females. Though this female revolution myth superficially changed the sabordinate status of females, yet it didn’t alter the historical destiny of females as “the other”. Revolution emancipated females in form, and then, by means of “desexualization” and “making them Hua Mulans” re-restrictedthem, in the name of “revolution”, in man-right discourse. This mode of “model Beijing opera” narration unconsciously hid male discourse hegemony in itsseemingly revolutionary speech to elevate females.

Key words: cultural revolution literature, model Beijing opera, feminism, meditation light of “the other”

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