narrative of "cross-dressing" in Ming and Qing novels is universal and closely related to the concept of gender. This article, taking the three categories of works of scholars and beautiful women, heroic legends, and human relations novels as the starting point, analyzes their narrative types of "cross-dressing", showing the initial awakening, the of patriarchal society, and the germination of female consciousness from "male superiority and female inferiority" to "gender equality", the re-examination of gender differences and the exploration of gender harmony, reflecting the complexity of the changes in the concept of gender in the Ming and Qing periods, and reflecting the influence and thinking of literature the traditional gender order.
Jingwen Gong (Mon,) studied this question.