Abstract:This paper discusses how Qiu Jin's choice of outfits had played an important role in her revolutionary pursuit, analyzes the motive of her choice of outfits and the deep cultural characteristics embedded in it based on an examination of her portraits and the Chinese and Japanese records of Qiu Jin. Notably, there is obvious difference about Qiu Jin's outfits between Chinese and Japanese records, the foreign records renewed Qiu Jin's stereotyped image in Chinese people's impression. From the perspective of Judith Bulter, gender is the result of performativity. Qiu Jin's cross-dressing outfits can be viewed as a personal rebellion in her daily life. From her spontaneous rebellion against her husband to her conscious devotion of her life to the over-throw of the Qing government, Qiu Jin managed not only to escape the constraint of the traditional female role but also to complete the transformation of her social identity.
黄华. 始信英雄亦有雌——中日学者笔下的秋瑾装束[J]. 妇女研究论丛, 2015, 0(2): 73-81.
HUANG Hua. The Beginning Knowledge of the Female Hero: The Different Outfits of Qiu Jin under the Records of Chinese and Japanese Writers. , 2015, 0(2): 73-81.