"Badger Game",meaning the employment of beautiful women in ancient Chinese military tactics to mesmerize the enemy and undermine their judgment and morale,finds its way into modern TV dramas with disparate interpretations and diverse images of "the beauty". Through analyzing the roles in modern TV series of Diaochan and Xishi,the most notable ancient beauties,this papers attempts,on the one hand,to point out that,produced mainly to entertain,the modern versions of "badger game" beauties subvert the traditional view of women as sirens who lured you to your destruction. On the other hand,the destructive power of "Sirens" is sometimes exaggerated,putting women in an scrutinized "otherness" position.
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