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LEGEND OF HUA MU-LAN: MORAL GUIDELINES AND ORIENTALISM
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Yurii Grigor'evich Smertin
Kuban' State University
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Submitted:
April 4, 2012
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Abstract.
The author studies the phenomenon of the girl Hua Mu-lan's legendary image popularity in Chinese culture and popular culture of the West at the end of the XXth - the beginning of the XXIst century, shows that the story of her well-behaved actions and military prowess is found in the ancient poem, for the first time in national historiography considers moral imperatives offered in the poem, analyzes their interpretations in Chinese and Western civilizations, and comes to the conclusion that the centuries-old evolution of the image was determined by historical conditions, political goals, gender stereotypes, aesthetic preferences and Orientalism as modern discourse.
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Key words and phrases:
фольклор
образ
переодевание
война
гендерное неравенство
любовь
эротизм
стереотипы
мораль
преданность
folklore
image
disguise
war
gender inequality
love
eroticism
stereotypes
morality
loyalty
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