Politicizing the queue： The social, political and cultural symbolism of hair in Qing dynasty and young republican China  

作　　者：DING Li-li 

机构地区：[1]Sydney Institute of Language ＆ Commerce, Shanghai University, Shanghai 201800, China

出　　处：《Sino-US English Teaching》2010年第12期53-58,共6页中美英语教学（英文版）

摘　　要：The human body, such as hair, serves as a prism through which historical and cultural contexts are effectively refracted. Despite its historical and cultural significance, the role of hair, however, remains curiously a marginalized subject among the renewed interests on the body in the academic fields. In this paper, the author attempts to politicize the queue from 3 perspectives： maintaining a certain prescribed hairstyle is a top-down gesture to construct national conformity; the boundary between Manchu and Han is invoked and reinvented through the battles surrounding the queue politic in late Qing and early Republic; the widespread debate between keeping the queue and cutting the queue at the turn of the 20th century epitomizes the haunting rhetoric of traditionalism and modernism pursuit of modernity in China.

关 键 词：QUEUE HAIRSTYLE politic social cultural symbolism Chinese Confucius Qing dynasty Republican China MANCHU Han 

分 类 号：G633.41[文化科学—教育学]