Qichen Zhong
- BA (Qingdao University, 2014)
Topic
Bai Juyi’s (772-846) Poems on Women: A Narratological Approach
Department of Pacific and Asian Studies
Date & location
- Thursday, August 18, 2022
- 4:00 P.M.
- Virtual Defence
Reviewers
Supervisory Committee
- Dr. Tsung-Cheng Lin, Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria (Supervisor)
- Dr. Cody Poulton, Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, UVic (Member)
External Examiner
- Dr. Ping Wang, Department of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington
Chair of Oral Examination
- Dr. Lijun Zhang, Department of Economics, UVic
Abstract
This thesis aims to explore the image of women in Bai Juyi’s (772-846) poetry with a narratological approach. It selects 109 of Bai’s poems about women as the research objects and divides them into two main categories: the poems written in a male voice and that written in a female voice. A total of 24 poems are examined as examples. Chapter one serves as a general introduction to the research background, providing information about the poet and the tradition of Chinese poetry. Chapter two outlines two narrative concepts, “narrator” and “focalizer”. Also, it explores the image of women in the 14 example pomes written in a male voice. Chapter three includes 10 example poems written in a female voice, investigating the differences between the image of women in the male and female voices.