Looking in the Mirror - On the Social Expectations of Women in the Flowers in the Mirror

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10.2991/978-2-38476-319-1_59How to use a DOI?

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Female image; Flowers in the Mirror; Social expectations

Abstract

Flowers in the Mirror is a novel written during the Jiajing period of the Qing Dynasty in China. The author Li Ruzhen, through describing some positive female images with transcendental significance, such as Tang Guichen, Lin Shuxiang, and Yan Ziqiong, abandoned the concept and narrative method of despising or even vilifying women in the novels of the previous dynasties to a certain extent and conveyed the social expectations of female roles. However, it was also limited by the times and had certain limitations.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Weiyi Zhang
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/12/14
TI  - Looking in the Mirror - On the Social Expectations of Women in the Flowers in the Mirror
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 6th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 509
EP  - 515
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-319-1_59
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-319-1_59
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