The 20th Century Chinese Women Writing

The climax about Chinese female writing appeared in Chinese literature history of the 20th century. From the women group at the May Fourth Movement to "feminist writing" in 1990s they declared publicly a course of the female writers' gender consciousness from weak to strong. At the middle period of eighties western feminist theory was introduced into China. Our feminist literature criticism came out.The feminist theory came from Western. "Misreading" and "misunderstanding" existed in the reception of the female writing and literature criticism. Western feminism appeared in the women's liberation movement. On initial stage in order to strive for the political, legal power equal with man the feminism emphasized the women's right against man right. Along with the infiltration of social culture from the feminism people began to realize they were essentialism of gender on matter man right or women right. The essentialism of gender necessarily made for gender opposition and gender inequality from value. The feminism gradually gave up their bias against man. They had criticized all unequal origins existed extensively in social life from the deep structure of western culture. In the west from women's movement begun in the 18th century to gender equality with difference between man and woman at the present stage the feminism had gone deep into social conscious base. The trend of thought of feminism came into our country in a large amount occurred in the middle period of the eighties of the 20th century. Therefore our introduce and development about western feminism was not in proper sequence. The sequence of idea from "Diachrony" had accepted by the one from "Synchrony". So confusion emerged. In women's writing of 1990s, gender consciousness was relatively complicated regardless of the author. implying authors or narrator. Literature criticism discourse from the feminism also is complicated. "Bolting" phenomenon exited among them.From the broad vision, this thesis attempts to summarize theories and practices of Chinese feminist writing in 20th century by means of Feminist critical theories, New historicism, archetype criticism and narratology. In the course of concrete research, the thesis paid more attention to text analyzing and avoid inanely deducing on western feminist literary theory. " From the essence to the relation" is not only the essential view but also the frame of reference of the comment on female writing. "Surpass feminist" is not only the conclusion but also the goal of the female writing and its criticizing. Treating of "Body Narrative", "Individual Narrative", and the "motive": "Lesbian" and " procreate", the thesis made effort to combine the static synthesis and dynamic researches in order to probe into the value of the feminist currently writing at present and look for its approach in the future.