On "Feminism" Of Contemporary Chinese Literature

The term of "Feminism" was firstly put forward in 1880s, and introduced into China by Zhu Hong in 1980s. At present, feminist criticism and feminist writing have developed rapidly in China. In the terms of literary criticism, the feminist critics illustrated the philosophic basis and actual origination, from which China's feminist theory derived, and criticized literary phallogocentrism, and defined "feminism" from the point of "feminist view". But at the same time, such point as localizing feminist criticism, distinguishing "woman" and from "man" and being creative on feminist criticism, which are still to be further studied, have being neglected. On the part of woman's writing, some feminist writer of China began to write consciously in the light of feminist theory. The common character of the texts is to describe body to oppose to phallogocentrism, to view and recognize themselves according to the world of the mirror stage, and to make man absence through undergoing the lesbian sexual climax. Obviously they are also faced with some quandary. For example, women are put into the situation of being gazed at after exposing themselves, after gaily narcissism they inevitably walk into corruption and are exiled without being angels instead of madwomen. In short, feminist literature possesses its special value in examining literature from sexual point of view. But it is worth introspecting over that emotion is far away from human nature.