A Study of Female Images in Qing Dynasty Tanci Novels under the Influence of Social Change

Abstract

It is of practical significance to study the image of women in Qing dynasty ballad novels under the influence of social change. This paper analyzes the overall architecture of ALBERT model and SABL model respectively, and proposes a text sentiment analysis model based on AlBERT-SABL, which uses ALBERT layer to initialize text data and uses hybrid Self-attention mechanism to train the understanding of the meaning of utterances. Then, the model was used to analyze the original novels and related literary criticism works to explore the changes in the image of women in Qing dynasty bullet novels with the deepening degree of social change. In terms of the image of women's participation in politics, the image of women who portrayed fierce resistance and pretended to be men to participate in politics increased by 7% in the late Qing Dynasty compared with the early period. In terms of the image of women fighting for economic rights, the mid-Qing period is 8.44% higher than the early period, while the late period is 26.22% higher than the mid period. In terms of the image of women fighting for women's rights, for the three types of women portrayed who demanded to be free from the dependency of their brothers, fathers, and husbands, the late period was -20.22%, -7.09%, and +27.31%, respectively, compared to the early period. This study is able to glimpse the course of social change in the Qing dynasty from the changes of female images in bullet novels, reflecting to some extent the awakening process of female consciousness in the Qing dynasty.