关键词: 阴阳, 欧美汉学, 性别, 明清小说, 叙事学

Abstract: In the context of Chinese culture, Yin and Yang have a huge interpretable space because of its rich semantics. Under the guidance of Yin and Yang philosophy and Confucian discourse, the concept of gender in China is essentially different from that in the West. In view of the close relationship between Yin-Yang and Chinese gender, in the perspective of gender studies, European and American Sinologists regard Yin and Yang as the ideological and cultural background on the one hand, and as the abstract internal structure related to novel rhetoric on the other. Maram Epstein, Martin W. Huang, Giovanni Vitiello and other sinologists discussed the masculinity and femininity in the novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and reformed and improved the theory of gender in China. Andrew H. Plaks, Maram Epstein and other sinologists are committed to the structuralist analysis of Ming and Qing novels under the concepts of Yin and Yang, and construct the logic of Yin and Yang, the gender structure and the harmonious relationship between novel texts. This research of European and American Sinologists is of great significance in the history of novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties, the history of global gender studies, and the history of European and American Sinology.

Key words: Yin and Yang, Sinology in Europe and America, gender, novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties, Narratology