Abstract:Popularized biographies of historical figures have been commonly used in contemporary newspapers and magazines. They are particularly known to combine factual history with story telling, link past with present, and combine western with Chinese languages, presenting strong and important connections that have been overlooked between Chinese classic material and contemporary revolutionary movements. These revisions of historical figures are built on a common understanding of, and insights from, the shared course of history, combining nationalist awareness with emotions for the country at that point in time, and development of multiple gender-based writing styles to capture the nation's imagination. This paper adopts the method of "imagining big from small" to place the revised biographies of women martyrs in the historical context of the late Qing, not only paying attention to contemporary considerations but also dissecting the cultural context embedded in the image of "degraded men" in the revolutionary discourse of late Qing.
[韩]李贞玉. 晚清革命话语中的“贬男”想象——以女杰传记为中心的考察[J]. 妇女研究论丛, 2015, 0(1): 92-98.
LI Zhen-yu. The Image of "Degraded Men" in the Revolutionary Discourse in Late Qing: A Study Based on Biographies of Women Martyrs. , 2015, 0(1): 92-98.