title: THE BIOGRAPHY OF BAO SI, THE SPOUSE OF THE KING YOU OF ZHOU, IN THE CONTEXT OF NIEBIZHUAN, A PART OF LIENUZHUAN BY LIU XIANG
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metadata.value: Kirichenko, Anastasiia D.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-11-18T16:20:36Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-11-18T16:20:36Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288064135.18
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/47953
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metadata.value: In the article there is a study of the biography of Bao Si 褒姒, King You of Zhou’s 周幽
  王 second wife, in the context of Niebizhuan 孽嬖傳, — the volume of biographical corpus
  Lienüzhuan 列女傳 by the Han scholar and litterateur Liu Xiang 劉向. The author set
  himself the task of identifying phrases that characterise Bao Si, comparing them with
  records about other depraved favourites, and finding out which female images of Niebizhuan
  are closest to the image of Bao Si and which biographies are the most textually close to the biographical note about her. A comparative analysis revealed that among
  the biographies of “favourites bearing calamities”, the note about Bao Si is the only
  one containing a fantastic element of the narrative. We suppose that by rewriting the
  story about the dragon ancestors of Bao Si, Liu Xiang rather expressed respect for the
  authority of the historical monuments he used, but did not need this story to support
  his argument against King You of Zhou’s favourite. Removing the backstory of Bao Si’s
  birth would not have affected the persuasiveness of the story, for the portrait of Bao
  Si already contains typical (according to Liu Xiang) features of a destroyer of state. Secondly,
  in Niebizhuan, the biography of Bao Si most of all echoes the biographies of Mo Xi
  and Da Ji. In these three biographies Liu Xiang in similar terms outlined the relationship
  between sovereigns and their favourites, enriching the text with such and psychological
  and everyday details that we do not find in the sources that Liu Xiang used and that have
  survived to the present day. By adding these details, the Han scholar and litterateur not
  only gave coherence and completeness to his story, he also, what is even more important,
  achieved the effect of mutual reinforcement of the impression made by separate
  biographies.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: St. Petersburg University Studies in Social Sciences & Humanities;Volume 6
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ancient Chinese literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Western Zhou Period
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Liu Xiang
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Lienüzhuan (Biographies of Exemplary Women)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Niebizhuan (Biographies of Depraved Favourites)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Bao Si
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: King You of Zhou
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: THE BIOGRAPHY OF BAO SI, THE SPOUSE OF THE KING YOU OF ZHOU, IN THE CONTEXT OF NIEBIZHUAN, A PART OF LIENUZHUAN BY LIU XIANG
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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