The Late Chinese Female Literature Split Consciousness, The 20th Century Theory

The 20th century is undoubtedly a century with conflicts between the east and west when different cultural thoughts showed their appearance one by one. This battle between different ideas of values lead to division. Chinese women, as an entity directly guided by important historical events like the WWII, western feminism movement, China's opening to the world and '95 World Women's conference, freed themselves from the collective unconsciousness dominated by man towards the autonomous, open state of mind, hi this process history and tradition, as cultural elements, have hidden constraints and invisibility to women who are, from the beginning, invisible and absent in the history. At the same time, modernity, as a quest for infinite freedom, has its overworking, divisive characteristics, which guide women to get out of constraint and gain a return of their 'ego'. But the existence of these two elements adds to the fighting and conflicting of these two. Compelled by these external power, women accepted the guidance of the feminism ideas. reconstructing and building their ego in a mess and at the same time, resolving and dividing their ego. In this way, we encounter a paradox in this construction of new cultural order where the construction host itself is in a state of being compressed, while the standard and the consciousness comprise of some unreasonability which produce extreme women's standing point, strategies and counter-reasonable humanity. All these make women's division to be the symbol of women's existence. Consequently, the idea of women's division flourish in the writing of women's literature in the late 20th century.How should the destiny of the women be described and written? Women writers have been exploring and recording the lives of women since late 20th century in an active way. Women's literature, with its colorful implication, recorded the history of women themselves as well as the development of the whole society. The division idea in women's literature is always a topic in this history. The division idea in this dissertation can be understood both in narrow and broad way. The first refers to the fact that in the process of changing from traditional women to modern ones, the tension by the need from the outside world and the internal need of the women themselves(the freedom) causes the cutting-apart and division. Broadly understanding, women, from their life experience of their own and in the existing living culture and social environment, realize their own role of human beings(social role and internal needs), identification(central and byside), sex(female or non-female), position(primary and affiliated), value(social and individual) and ideology(mainstream and branches) and the division among them all and also, they have thoughts of division and separation between ego and society, ego and other people and also between egos. The idea of division of the women has ambiguity, multi-implicative and are dynamic and opposite. It has function to resuscitate the women's nature and promote women's individuality. It's also a fighting and question of women's complex of self-avoidance.This dissertation tries to give a comprehensive and detailed investigation of the division idea mentioned just before. The author will also discuss the related topic of survival of the women and tries to clarify this concept. The author pointed out the external reason of late 20th century women's division and told us that this idea was the result of the conflicting between the east andthe west, tradition and modernity and both tradition and modernity are involved in the formation of women's division idea. The internal reason lies in the self-investigation of women themselves in which women obtain 'self-assurance" as well "self-denial" thoughts. And in battling between individual advantage and the remaining cultural diseases, women fulfill the promotion of themselves and fit well into the society. In this sense, self-investigation is the media between the prologue of division and convergence. The author star...