High-profile Swan Song - On May 4th The New Women Writers Of Female Writing

The period of the May Fourth movement was a turning point of the era, it was the time which we must remembered it. During the times, it not only concluded the new theory and the new opinion which against feudalism and down the ritual, but also born the true Chinese feminine literature with the modern significance.Chinese new movement let women who slumbered in feudal times awoken, because of importance of female emancipation; it showed the female writers outstanding talent in literature. Meanwhile it injected new blood for female literature in the period of the May Fourth movement. The May Fourth movement time was a young era because in the meantime, many young female writers wrote their own works. Female writing in the period of the May Fourth movement present polymorphous type and among the female writers,LuYin, Dingling ,Baiwei,Shipingmei and Fengyuanjun resisted more firmly feudalism, it was named New Female Writers. The New Female Writers not only enriched the Chinese literature, but also presented the independence in their woks. Meanwhile their viewpoints were similar to the western feminists. Though Chinese New Female Writers don't have many theories in western feminist literature, they wanted to express themselves and pursue the equality between men and women. Their works presented feminist color. They wanted to shake off phallocentricism and find their own right to speak. Meanwhile they wanted to strive for their spiritual independence through their outputs. It proved that they were the person who awoken from feudal times. Their viewpoints had common to Woolf, Cixous, Julia Kristeva's thought. They tried to construct the mental world where concluded their girl friends and themselves. They declared publicly that women could survive even if they were independent of their husbands. New Female Writers not only were against the feudal ideology and struggled for freedom, but also gained the right to speak for woman. The contribution to the Chinese female writing was proved that their idea was similar to the theory of western feminist literature. New female writers were the people who lived in the special environment. They received the traditional family education and the western culture, so their works were different from western feminist literature. Their literary outputs concluded anti-feudal thought and endeavored to their happiness. At the same time, their literary outputs had the content of revolution and nationality. Their recalcitrancy had strong political complexion, which present in western feminist literature. Western feminists didn't experience the long feudal society, so their viewpoints were open-minded. Chinese women were passive and obedient because of the special social structure. They must struggled for Chinese people's liberation before they struggled for women's equality and freedom. The characteristic of the New female writers 'writing is that women's liberation is impure, which mixed political and notional complexion.Because Chinese female writing is born to the May fourth movement, many women only accept it passively. Chinese female literature have not unified theories and don't large-scale feminist movement, the limitation of their woks is that their works have not practical action.This article tries to use the method of parallel study to go into the relation of Chinese New Female Writers and western feminists. Yet Chinese New Female writers and western feminists live in different nations, different countries and different geographical conditions, their literary outputs reflect that New Female writers' thought have common to western feminist literature. The article concludes two chapters:The chapter 1: Feminist literary criticism and New Female writers' female writing. First, the article introduce the feminism's development in western countries. Meanwhile it underdraws the western feminist writers' theories. Second, the article analyzes the idea of New Female Writers' writing and find the common between Chinese New Female Writers and western feminists. It conclude women's right to speak and their spiritual independence and female spiritual alliance.The chapter 2: The particular writing in the special environment. The New female writers lived in special nation and special region, they lived in a transformable period, so they must break away from the phallocentricism and get rid of the yoke from feudalism. They must think women's future in order to literate them to make a success.