Abstract
The TV series Journey to the West, first shown on China Central Television in 1986, is undoubtedly a seminal work in the history of Chinese television. As a TV remake of the classical Chinese novel bearing the same title, this work, following the principle of "faithfulness", substantively makes itself a symptomatic excess to the original novel. Through the "feminine affection" depicted by the general director Yang Jie, the original novel's phallocentric perspective is replaced in a revolutionary way by a feminine perspective of the Queen of the "Feminine Kingdom". In the end of the TV remake when Tripitaka has "completed" the journey to the West, he nonetheless is still haunted by the abyssal gaze from the Queen, which, for Lacan, means the opening-up of a radical passage from law to love.
First Page
27
Last Page
36
Recommended Citation
Wu, Guanjun. 2016. "A Feminine Gaze: A Lacanian Analysis of the TV Series Journey to the West." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 36, (6): pp.27-36. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss6/2
