caa a22 4500 606172645 CHVBK 20210128100729.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11059-015-0312-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11059-015-0312-y Yang Jincai Institute of Foreign Literature, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, 210023, Nanjing, China aut Reading ethics and the body in Geling Yan's The Flowers Of War [Elektronische Daten] [Jincai Yang] Michel Foucault has written of the body that it is also directly involved in a political field. This understanding of the body and its direct relation to political realms may also illuminate much in the war context of Chinese Resistance against Japanese Invasion (1937-1945) which saw an intense focus in many of the social and political issues in China feeding into historical inquiry on the performance of the human body. In recapturing this history Geling Yan turned out her novella The Flowers of War, rendering a different perspective into the Japanese rape of Nanjing notoriously known as the Nanjing Massacre. As a writer, Yan projects a cogent historical vision, and throughout the novella, she makes particular demands on her readers who must serve as capable interpreters of the historical record of the Nanjing Massacre. In interpreting this work, both writer and readers participate in constituting the cultural currency of the traumatic experience resulting from the Japanese seizure of the city and assigning value to the varied subjectivity Chinese women assume in the narrative. Here we read the body as a realm of meaning and follow the ways the female Chinese characters including the prostitutes of the Qin Huai River brothels teach us to read it. Human behavior is central to most literary texts which demand ethical responses. The Flowers of War is exactly a case in point. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2015 Trauma nationallicence Ethics nationallicence Cultural currency nationallicence Geling Yan nationallicence Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/2(2015-12-01), 571-584 0324-4652 42:2<571 2015 42 11059 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-015-0312-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-015-0312-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Yang Jincai Institute of Foreign Literature, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, 210023, Nanjing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/2(2015-12-01), 571-584 0324-4652 42:2<571 2015 42 11059