英文摘要 |
How should we understand the frequent appearance of the figure of the male dan in modern Chinese-language representations of male same-sex relations? This paper holds that this is partly due to the strong visibility this figure enjoyed in the late imperial Chinese culture scene. On the one hand, his visibility had to do with the flourishing theater culture in Ming-Qing China; on the other, the booming print and publishing culture of this period also enhanced the visibility of this figure, who was frequently featured in works of a wide variety of the genres and forms, both visual ( e.g. illustration, photography, and advertisement) and literary (e.g. novel, poetry, guidebook entry, newspaper report, and tabloid article). As a result, this figure continued to linger in the collective memory of Chinese-speaking societies. By deliberately bringing visual culture and representations of male same-sex relationships together, this paper seeks to trace the development of visual forms in popular culture from late Ming to the early Republican era, and at the same time how the changes shaped the visualizations of male-male relations. |