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- PublicationAdorned Body, Female Language, and Emotional Marriage between Chinese Women in Snow Flower and the Secret FanPhasomsup, Pannawish (2018)This research paper focuses on the study of Chinese women’s social status and tactics for survival in a patriarchal society in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan written by Lisa See. The author reveals the agony of the foot-binding tradition Chinese women had to undergo in the feudal period. Lisa See also demonstrates how female characters survived such circumstances by means of learning Nü Shu, a woman’s writing invented by women for women to express their grievances and inner feelings, and of creating an emotional companionship between women called ‘Laotong’, which is significant for survival under the male dominance. My discussion will be divided into five topics: 1) The linkage between ‘space’ and ‘female status’, which is presented in the form of the ‘public-private’ dichotomy. 2) ‘Nü Shu’, a woman language which is used to express inner feelings and as a tool for liberating themselves from the dominant culture. 3) The concept of the body as a site of discursive practice which exercises its power over female subjectivity. This concept is presented in the form of the foot-binding practice. 4) ‘Laotong’ relations or emotional companionship between Chinese women, which is viewed as a homoerotic relationship and as a tool for linking women together.
- PublicationChivalry of the Chinese Heroes: A Character Sketch of the Knights-Errant and the Assassins in Sima Qian’s Records of the Grand HistorianOungbho, Nop (2017)This article looks into a character sketch of the historical knights-errant and assassins as depicted in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian. Both groups of people are featured in two chapters of the Records, which are ‘Biographies of the Knights-errant’ and ‘Biographies of the Assassins’, respectively, including how they were born to the society, what they did, their social positions and ideals towards their own acts, and how different groups of people thought about them. The article would also discuss the Chinese-style heroism, which has influenced many writers in creating the works of fiction about 'wuxia' (martial hero or warrior) in later periods as well.
- PublicationConceptual Blending Analysis of Diangu (典故 Classic Allusions) as Metaphor in A Dream of Red MansionsHan, Jianghua (2018)This paper studies the use of Diangu (典故) in Chinese poetry. Diangu (典故) refers to ancient events or stories quoted in poems and words with literary origins (Modern Chinese Dictionary 2012: 290). However, the Western allusion refers to an implicit reference, perhaps to another work of literature or art or to a person or an event; it is often a kind of appeal for a reader to share some experience with the writer; an allusion may enrich the work by association (q.v.) and give it depth (Cuddon 2013: 25). Thus, the concepts of “Diangu (典故)” and “allusion” do not correspond exactly, because the semantic range of the two words are not the same. In order to show the difference, we use the term “Classic Allusion” to refer the Chinese word “Diangu (典故)”. From the cognitive linguistic perspective, Diangu (典故) in Chinese poetry is a category of metaphor (Ji Guangmao 1998 & Bai Minjun 2004 & Zhong Lingli 2009 & Li Pengfei 2010 & Zhang Guowei 2011). Its essence is to use the stories or events that have taken place in history to metaphorize events or people in the present. There are similarities or correlations between these historical events or stories and the events or people in present which form cross-domain projections, and form poetic metaphors based on conceptual blending mechanism, expressing the corresponding metaphorical meaning and emotions. The Diangu (典故) involve both the past (historical events or stories) and present (the present events or people). The “historical events or stories” and the “present events or people” have certain similarities or correlations; both of the mental spaces of the past and present share a same organizational framework. Accordingly, the conceptual blending network of Diangu (典故) belongs to mirror networks. Furthermore, using conceptual blending theory to analyze the internal structure of Diangu (典故) can make readers understand the nature of “Diangu (典故)” more clearly.
- PublicationFEMALE PROTAGONIST’S SELF-SEARCH IN THE NOVEL OF SHANGHAI BABYSuphap, Aphiradi (2019)This research intends to explore the female protagonist’s self-search. Textual analysis is mostly employed here along with the psyche’s theory of Sigmund Freud. Coco encounters her identity crisis throughout the story. She struggles with so many crises in her life: having sexual problems, lacking self-awareness, losing self-esteem and self-worth, being torn between the Chinese old tradition and the arrival of Western culture. Her self-search process, however, occurs without her realization. First, she turns to masturbation to release her sexual repression. Second, she becomes the materialist and is obsessed with consumer culture. Third, she retreats into her dreams. Fourth, she has the affair with the German man named Mark. Fifth, she visits the psychologist. Sixth, tries to express herself through her writing. Some of her self-search process, however, does not happen respectively but they are the ongoing procedures that overlap with some other self-identification. Apparently, Coco always lets her “id” overcome her “ego” which often leads to too much chaos in her life. The inability to control her mind especially her sexual instinct brings her the sense of shame and guilt which leads her to lose self-esteem and self-worth. Although she attempts various ways to find her identity, it seems like it is a failure since she still asks the same question of who she is at the end of the story. Nevertheless, among her self-search’s process, expressing herself through writing is the best way of all other methods during her journey of self-searching. Yet, her ultimate goal of becoming a famous writer does not come true yet. She is finished her first novel but still does not know its destiny.
- PublicationGao Xingjian's Bus Stop: Dystopian in Contemporary ChinaSasipanudej, Nipon (2016)This article aims to discuss how Gao Xingjian recontextualizes European dystopianism into China under Mao Zedong’s ideological manipulation of “utopia,” which the latter adopted from Karl Marx. The theme of absurd eternal waiting for a bus in Bus Stop is technically employed to criticize the Chinese dream of utopia and the idea of utopia itself as a whole. When the theme of waiting in Waiting for Godot is relocated into a Chinese context, it diverts from Western drama by means of Gao Xingjian’s dramaturgical innovation as a blend of the East and the West. The absurdity in Bus Stop makes Chinese utopian desire fetishized as an eternal but ubiquitous zero, and becomes naked politics as utopia for desire and desire for utopia.