Abstract:

 Liu Hulan, as a household revolutionary heroine, became a definite image carrying symbolic significance after the canonization during the period of Cultural Revolution. The image building of Liu Hualan , in effect, was a complicated process accompanied by the prominence of difference discourse patterns at different historical phases. From “a maiden in the routine narrative ” to “a heroine in the narrative of class struggles”, the image of Liu Hulan was gradually depicted as a monotonous character. Through the examination of Liu Hulan’s image changes in the perspective of comic strips, the paper traces how the stereotype of the “revolutionary heroine” was built through “adoption or deletion” and “adaptation”. It also reveals that under a unified mainstream tone in narrating revolutionary figures, the competition between “original story” and “arranged story” reflected the rival between folk discourse and ideological discourse.

Key words: routine narrative, image building; , rival between discourse patterns, narrative of revolutionary heroes or heroines