A Feminist Study of the Figure Mulan in Moment in Peking_英语论文

摘要

查尔斯.傅立叶首次提出的女性主义这个词，影响了中国作家上千年。曾经深受“新思想”所影响的中国伟大的作家林语堂，在他的作品京华烟云中也表现出深受女性主义影响。

很多作家已经在他们的作品中谈论过木兰这一形象，他们主要将木兰这一角色和很多家喻户晓的女性主义角色进行性格对比。然而，他们却忽略了独立地从他的个人经历来分析木兰这一角色。

为了从新的角度来分析木兰这一女性主义角色，本文将进一步研究这一角色。论文由四部分组成，第一部分将将研究女性主义的相关研究的发展，以及前人对京华烟云的研究。至于第二部分将研究该文章的理论基础—女性主义，作者将从女性主义的历史及发展着手研究。此外，由京华烟云研究女性主义这一概念对中国男性作家的影响。在第三部分，也就是我们最重要的部分，作者将从木兰的家庭教育，恋爱，婚姻，以及她所经历的艰苦这一角度来研究木兰这一角色，文章将细节地研究所有方面。最后一部分将会讨论目前学习存在的局限性以及对将来学习的一些建议。作者也将总结全文研究内容的成果。         

关键词：文化女性主义  木兰  京华烟云

Abstract

The item feminist which first mentioned by Charles Fourier has affected thousands of Chinese writers. Lin Yutang, one of the greatest Chinese writers who has been influenced by the “new thought”, also shows that he has been greatly affected by the item feminist in his work Moment in Peking.

The figure Mulan has already been talked a lot by others. They mainly focus on comparing Mulan with other feminists figure in other world-famous works from the aspects of their characteristics. However, the previous writers has neglected study on Mulan individually from the aspects of her experience. 

In order to study on this figure from a new aspects. The author will study this figure further. This paper consists of four parts. The first part deals with the related researches on the development of the item feminist and the previous study on Moment in Peking. As for the second part, the author will aim at an overall statement of the theoretical foundation- feminist. The author will study feminist from its history and spread, what’s more, the effect of feminist to Chinese female based on the work Moment in Peking as well. The third part, the most important part, will focus on studying the figure Mulan in Moment in Peking from her family education and her love and marriage, and her hardship as well. This paper will study all of these aspects in detail. The last part will discuss some   limitations and suggestions for future study. And the author will draw a conclusion what has been studied in the whole paper.

Key words: feminist study;  Mulan;  Moment in Peking 

Contents

1 Introduction 1

1.1 the history of feminism 1

1.2 Brief Introduction to Lin Yutang and Moment in Peking 1

1.3 the research on feminism of in Novel Moment in Peking 2

2 An overall statement of the theoretical foundation: feminist in the writing 4

2.1 The related researches on the history of feminism 4

2.2 The effect of feminism in China 6

2.2.1 The effect of feminism to female in China 6

2.2.2 The effect of feminism to male writers in China 8

3 A systematical analysis of Mulan from several aspects of social convention 10

3.1 Investigation of Mulan’s family education 10

3.2Investigation of Mulan’s love and marriage 11

3.3 Investigation of Mulan’s hardships and independence 12

3.4 Analysis on Mulan’s fate which results from characteristic 13

3.5Analysis on author’s attitudes towards the figure Mulan 14

4 Findings and Discussions 17

4.1 Major Findings 17

4.2 Limitations and Suggestions for Future Study 19

Conclusion 21

Bibliography 24

Acknowledgments 25