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Date(s)： 2018/09/14
Time： 15:00~17:00
Venue： Research 1st Meeting Room
Speaker：Prof. Ke Hui-ling（Associate Professor, Center for General Education, Chung Yuan Christian University）
Organizer： Women and Gender History Research Group
Abstract From the Late Qing, the emotion was going to be modernization step by step. The novels described love were welcomed by the hiao shih min (“little city people) which became the tide of the publish culture and formed the common emotion concept of elite and the populace. The popular talk of love in the Late Qing had the strong trend of martyr’s feelings. The individualism had been promoted during the Enlightenment Era. The saint and individualization of emotion were also cleared accompanied with the gender equality and free love advocating. The symptoms of this transformation were the individualization, intimacy and modernization of love that didn’t have the martyr’s feelings any more because the love went into the people. When the love popularized, the vulgar of the emotion had become the mainstream. The one party one state regime had built during the 1930s and the control of the published product was significant this time, added to the commercial force had much more prosperity in the metropolis that made the publish industry focus on seeking profit leading to the sensationalized of the public talk and the love was constructed by this kind of vuglar language. After the May-Fourth, the individual love developed the modern form of nationalism and the nation-state operated the emotion to mobilize people were distinct which had become the main characteristics of modern Chin’s party political culture