Women Is Constructed

The gender belongs to the social and culture system created by human relationsand social life. However, this system defined by culture rather than consanguinity hasbecome the standard of classifying work division and social characters, and it hasbeen described as the authentic, fundamental knowledge of human. In modern times,people have established gender fable to resist the modern rupture after the religiousfable has collapsed. The gender is the degree self-identity, as well as the culturalself-identity. It is mixed with the self-identity of race, country, nation and class.The modern Chinese literature is developing with the Chinese social reform andits collision with the western world. The modernization has stronger influence on theancient China than other western countries, and it caused the more obvious anxiety.During this period, the Chinese male intellectuals have got crisis in their ID of thenation, culture, and class. The crisis had definitely caused the gender IDacknowledgement problem, with an acute need to recognize the gender system torebuild their modern life bothered by rupture and restlessness. They intended to solvethe modern ID crisis and bemusement problem caused by the Chinese modern processwith the help of modern gender fable. The male self-construction of the Chinese malewriters is connected with the construction of female, and the design and imaginationof "other"----female are always the first approach when the male writers are facingthe life crisis, intending to build their subject.Different from the firm gender acknowledgement, the gender acknowledgementof modern society is not the individual feature but closely connected with thechanging society. Therefore, the modern gender acknowledgement and constructioncan not be accomplished once. It has to be repeated many times during different socialcontext and relations to be assured. The male role has changed with the national crisisand political alteration, with the change of national existence crisis, and they shiftedthis contradiction, which is caused by their expectation and reality, to women. Theiridea on women's role and behavior rules has also changed with the development ofthe society. They explained the historical and realistic function of different women inChinese society by the expression of women ---modern women, grass root women,prostitutes and mad women, and by the expression of the family relation and sexualrelation. Chinese male intellectuals have assured their dominant position in the newsocial power and culture network, repairing the disabled their subject which has everbeen "castrated" by the western culture and political culture.The traditional Chinese literature has been the sole male literature. Men mastersand manipulates power of defining women. However, women have abandoned thepassive position, getting the power in the image reformation of the male intellectuals.Since then, Chinese women have abandoned the passive position, starting a newapproach to the expression of female. The Chinese modern women's expression andemersion power is under the protection of men, so such creation environment resultsin the two sides of the modern women's writing, and the women's self-constructionhas been in a different approach. On one hand, they have to cater for the main streamideology, male desire, join in the great themes of enlightenment, revolution, nation,country, sharing the male writing rights, fighting for their own cultural ID and socialposition;on the other hand, they are building up the women's narrative authoritygingerly, not only with the themes of the relation between mother and daughter,homosexuality, but also the themes of the nation and country to express the femaleexperience, being against the definition of the dominant male world, setting up thefemale ID in culture and society, changing passive position to active position. In thewomen's writing, they break down the mode of man/women or guide/follower,clearing up the passive trend of women. In the narration and imagination of women,they started from the body of woman, expressing their real living condition under theoppression of the dominant male world, exploring the hidden positive power,reevaluating the women's subject consciousness. The Chinese society has greatchange in the imagination and perception of the female gender because of theexpression right of the women, their self-rebuilding, correcting the misunderstandinggiven by the male expression. The literature narration is the most important field ofthe gender construction. In this respect, the appearance and development of modernChinese literature is the process of Chinese modern gender construction.The article introduced the research of gender into the studies of modern Chineseliterature for 2 reasons: 1) Dating back to the historical scene, making a comparativereading between the male and female narrative writing, discussing how the genderpolitics, inspecting the diversity and cultural symbol are created. 2)Giving asupplement to the construction of the modern literature history---On one hand, toreevaluate the classic works in the women's point of view, probing the hidden genderpolitics in male writing, analyzing the shift of female resource and the oppression onthe independent consciousness of women, focusing on the hidden fury, rebellion,madness, despair;and analyzing how the female authors applied for, criticized,resisted the male authority, setting up their literature authority and consciousness ofsubject;on the other hand, to explore the left and unpopular writing, confirming theirliterature history meaning and value.