Roaming nüxia: female knights-errant in Jin Yong’s fiction
This thesis will explore the images of nüxia or “female knight-errant” in Jin Yong’s novels: The Eagle-Shooting Heroes, the Giant Eagle and Its Companion, and the Heaven Sword and the Dragon Saber. The depiction of nüxia underwent a significant development from the classical to modern literature of...
Main Author: | Chen, Yin-Jen |
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Other Authors: | Lin, Tsung-Cheng |
Format: | Others |
Language: | English en |
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2017
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Online Access: | https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/8857 |
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