The Human Relationship of Novels in late Qing Dynasty: On Precious Mirror of Boy Actresses (Pinhua Baojian)

• Main Authors: Wan-hsin Chen, 陳菀馨
• Other Authors: Lai-Xin Kang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86697257605974029480

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 中國文學研究所 === 98 === This thesis aims to explore human relationship in Precious Mirror of Boy Actresses (Pinhua Baojian) from the perspective of the Five Cardinal Relations (wulun) in Confucianism, including the relations between the ruler and subjects, father and son, husband and wife, siblings, and friends. This study divides the five types of relations into three categories. First, the relations between rule and subjects as well as father and son are discussed together to explore the issue of the authoritarian male-homoerotic world. Secondly, the research on relations between husband and wife and siblings aims to focus on the gender issue of actors/actresses. Thirdly, the relations between friends are to present the transformation of standards for making friends. Other literary works in the same period are employed to provide evidence for the popularity of male homoeroticism in the late Qing Dynasty as mentioned in this book.