Who Are the Most Beautiful Women of China？ --The ＂One Hundred Beauties＂ Genre in the Qing and Early Republican Eras

作     者：Xiaorong Li 

作者机构：Department of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies University of California Santa Barbara CA 93106 USA 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of Literary Studies in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities》 (中国高等学校学术文摘·文学研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第7卷第4期

页      面：617-653页

学科分类：0501[文学-中国语言文学] 0303[法学-社会学] 0502[文学-外国语言文学] 06[历史学] 060207[历史学-专门史] 0602[历史学-中国史] 

主　　题："one hundred beauties," representations of women Butterfly Writers the turn of the twentieth century 

摘      要：Established in the late imperial era, ＂one hundred beauties＂ （baimei） genre selected and portrayed one hundred beautiful women in Chinese history often through three cultural artifacts： woodblock print portraits, biographies, and poems. This paper takes as its focus the anthology Gujin baimei tuyong 古今百美图咏 （Illustrated biographies of and poems on one hundred beauties of the past and the present, 1917）, which has not received scholarly attention before. Bringing together collections of old and new-style beauties, the anthology is a showcase of the genre straddling two centuries. The transformation of the genre, as reflected in the Gujin baimei tuyong, complicates a simplistic distinction between tradition and modernity while enriching our understanding of the changing representations of women.