國立虎尾科技大學 |

Flesh and Stone : = Competing Narratives of Female Martyrdom from Late Imperial to Contemporary China.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Flesh and Stone :/
Reminder of title:	Competing Narratives of Female Martyrdom from Late Imperial to Contemporary China.
Author:	Wang, Xian.
Description:	1 online resource (229 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-09A(E).
Subject:	Asian literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355858921

Flesh and Stone : = Competing Narratives of Female Martyrdom from Late Imperial to Contemporary China.
Wang, Xian.

Flesh and Stone :Competing Narratives of Female Martyrdom from Late Imperial to Contemporary China. - 1 online resource (229 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

My dissertation focuses on the making of Chinese female martyrs to explore how representations serve as a strategy to either justify or question the normalization of the horrors of untimely death. It examines the narratives of female martyrdom in Chinese literature from late imperial to modern China in particular, explores the shift from female chaste martyrs to revolutionary female martyrs, and considers how the advocacy of female martyrdom shapes and problematizes state ideologies. Female martyrdom has been promoted in the process of the cultivation of loyalty throughout Chinese history. The traditional chastity cult continues to shape the contemporary meanings and conceptions of martyrdom, a value that is still promoted by the Chinese state. My dissertation explores the reasons that female martyrdom has remained a constant value and discuss how the state and print culture have cultivated it and adapted it to construct notions of gender, self, and identity in different time periods.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355858921Subjects--Topical Terms:

1183555
Asian literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Flesh and Stone : = Competing Narratives of Female Martyrdom from Late Imperial to Contemporary China.
LDR:03283ntm a2200349Ki 4500 001 916429
005 20181002081326.5
006 m o u
007 cr mn||||a|a||
008 190606s2018 xx obm 000 0 eng d
020 $a 9780355858921
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI10747661
035 $a (MiAaPQ)oregon:12094
035 $a AAI10747661
040 $a MiAaPQ $b eng $c MiAaPQ $d NTU
100 1 $a Wang, Xian. $3 1190155
245 1 0 $a Flesh and Stone : $b Competing Narratives of Female Martyrdom from Late Imperial to Contemporary China.
264 0 $c 2018
300 $a 1 online resource (229 pages)
336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 $a computer $b c $2 rdamedia
338 $a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.
500 $a Adviser: Maram Epstein.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2018.
504 $a Includes bibliographical references
520 $a My dissertation focuses on the making of Chinese female martyrs to explore how representations serve as a strategy to either justify or question the normalization of the horrors of untimely death. It examines the narratives of female martyrdom in Chinese literature from late imperial to modern China in particular, explores the shift from female chaste martyrs to revolutionary female martyrs, and considers how the advocacy of female martyrdom shapes and problematizes state ideologies. Female martyrdom has been promoted in the process of the cultivation of loyalty throughout Chinese history. The traditional chastity cult continues to shape the contemporary meanings and conceptions of martyrdom, a value that is still promoted by the Chinese state. My dissertation explores the reasons that female martyrdom has remained a constant value and discuss how the state and print culture have cultivated it and adapted it to construct notions of gender, self, and identity in different time periods.
520 $a I argue that female chaste martyrdom functions as a bonding agent that holds male community together and consolidates the patriarchal system. The literary narratives of female martyrs simultaneously grant women agency while presenting female martyrs as objects of consumption, which reveals the instability in the role of women as agents/objects. I analyze flesh and stone as metaphors for two different discourses on female martyrdom. Flesh refers to the literary representations of flesh and blood bodies of female martyrs that work to disrupt the state discourse on martyrdom by introducing the embodied individual. From a larger socio-political perspective, the state attempts to lock in the meaning of the sacrifice as enhancing the power of the state by fixing the meaning of female martyrdom in stone monuments. The state-sponsored monuments work to erase the individual in service to an ideology of martyrdom that reduces the messiness of history to myth.
520 $a This dissertation includes previously published material.
533 $a Electronic reproduction. $b Ann Arbor, Mich. : $c ProQuest, $d 2018
538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web
650 4 $a Asian literature. $3 1183555
655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local $3 554714
690 $a 0305
710 2 $a ProQuest Information and Learning Co. $3 1178819
710 2 $a University of Oregon. $b Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. $3 1190156
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 79-09A(E).
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10747661 $z click for full text (PQDT)