Chinese Women's Lives from Visual Cultural Perspective: Yangliuqing New Year Woodblock Printings

侯杰，南开大学中国社会史研究中心教授，历史学院博士生导师，主要致力于中国社会性别史、视觉文化史等研究。王凤,南开大学历史学院博士生，主要研究方向为中国近现代社会性别史、中国木版年画史等【中文摘要】杨柳青年画既是闻名遐迩的民间艺术作品，又为探讨中国女性生活提供了珍贵的视觉文本。在传统中国，年画中的传统女性形象是男权社会对女性规训后的艺术再现。而近代中国，女性形象所发生的一系列变化，充分体现出民族主义话语及男性精英知识分子对年画创作者及年画作品，乃至社会的浸润与期待。女性的主体身份和社会角色的重新塑造与定义，充满了性别权力关系的调整与变化。杨柳青年画作为记录、反映并引领女性生活的视觉文本，不仅展现出女性形象的变化，而且足资考察中国女性生活从传统到现代的历史变迁及其隐含其中的性别权力关系。 【Abstract】Yangliuqing New Year Woodblock printing is famous Chinese folk art, which provides cherish visual text for analyzing women's lives of modem China. In traditional China, the female images of Yangliuqing New Year printings are disciplined by patriarchal society. They are art reproduction. In China, a series of changes of traditional female's images fully reflected expectation from male intellectuals to Yangliuqing New Year Printings and their authors. Women's identities and social roles are refigured and defined, which fulfilled adjustment and changes of gender power relations. As visual text for reflecting women's lives, Yangliuqing New Year Printings not only show changes of female's images，but also reveal gender power relations which hided from changes of womens lives.本文为天津市教委社会科学重大资助项目的阶段性成果，项目批准号2012ZD;项目合同号2012ZDH