On The Difference And Likeness Between Li Ang And Shi Shuqing

Li Ang and Shi Shuqing are two sisters in Taiwan literature circle who get focused attention. Their works take on a special style as"different in sameness, same in difference". There will be a significant try to do a disjoint-joint research to them.The paper's first chapter goes a detailed pectination about their works of Li Ang and Shi Shuqing. It gives introduction separately of their works, summarizing mainly in a sequence of time. The summarization points out the similarities between them: Both of them step in the literary world at the age of girlhood, having the same family background and similar experience of studying abroad. Native place, city, feminie and sex are the four points they concern about. Li Ang is a faithful writer of Taiwan, while Shi Shuqing travels around the world, returning back to the native finally.The second chapter focused on studying Li Ang and Shi Shuqing's experience in Lu Harbor and memories about Taiwan, taking the prime memory of Lu Harbor in their early-time works and presenting their different Lu Harbor Town. Legends and tabu are their common equation in works. Ogreish and ghastful atmosphere engender. After they walk out Lu Harbor, to Taipei even much wider world, the native memories still run through their novels. While making a biography of Taiwan's history is their common purpose. Li Ang writes Taiwan history basing on her family history, and Shi Shuqing writes in concerns of the immigrants in Qing Dynasty. On the common point of view, they show out different Taiwan comings and goings. The flourish at the end of century in Taiwan exposures Taipei urbanites"native memory lost". Shi Shuqing gives out modernists'native spirit lost under the culture of red alcohol; While Li Ang brings the Taiwan's depravation, illness and desolation at the end of century. Chinese traditional culture's transference and inheritance are the focus of them both.The third chapter mainly reviews the city presentation and female subsistence in their works. Raiment bears the weight of urban culture, even embodies the females'emotional mobility, social class and strategy of affiliation with heterosexual. In the sisters'works, the focusing on the females'raiment are the important parts of the urban culture representation. Shi Shuqing concerns more on the urban females'survival jam and love issues, marriage; the affectional mess and sensible comfort are the common issues they are concerned. Li Ang, with serious attitude, basing herself upon the Taiwan islands and abroad, writes about the urban feminine's living style, implying obvious animadvert and sardonic meaning to their living stratagem. While Shi Shuqing, travels in Taiwan, America and Hongkong, and pays more attention to those females living in foreign countries ( especially in Hongkong ). The creativity motivation"praise of the world"and the true-life technique, make her works penetrate a glorious and flowery city. Out of Taipei, out of Hongkong, Li Ang begins a particular"drift journey"in a strange region. Shi Shuqing visits in Italy, by her persistent luxury vigor of style, presents a banquet of cates and arts in the world of art.The fourth chapter discusses mainly on the element of sex existing in their novels. As two female writers, Li Ang and Shi Shuqing get quite acuminous perspicacity to affection in the same way. By the advantage of the sex, they take on the most serene affection experience and discover the deepest essence of feminism. The love pattern"from heart to body"is wonderfully presented in both of their novels. In their earlier works, they both have ever written about the growing course of females. Incubus and insane mood takes on Shi Shuqing's writings, while Li Ang describes girlish ardour illusion in a na?ve tone. Those females, who have gone through the time of girlhood, have more consideration about their bodies. From the status of materially passive status to initiative deal and fight, the female use their bodies to exchange foods, money, status, even political rights. The ebb and flow of sexual rights is incarnated incisively and vividly in the sisters'novels. Beyond the concerns of the traditional bisexual relationship (heterosexual), Li Ang and Shi Shuqing also address the homoerotism into their review. After going through sexual confusion, sexual corruption, sexual depression, sexual bargaining, sexual warfare, the female find a more unisonous method to rescue and expiate, and also about faggotry.