Desire & Seduction, China/West

The power relation between ChinaAVest is symbolically represented as the gender relation between man/woman in an essay by Liang Qichao(l873-1929) on the privilege of miscegenation. From then on, the desire for the "Western Beauty" is repeatedly emerged in the literary works of male writers in the 20s and 30s, yet the stability of the male subject is severely damaged by the subaltern situation felt clearly in reality. But the female subject in a famous novel Nie Hai Hua, who is depicted as being sexually attractive to the Western male, received great applauds during her trip to the Western world. Woman, as a sign assigned specifically to the subaltern identity, is therefore be introduced in the subject-construction process of modern Chinese. The female consciousness and the female body become vividly alive and energetic while being applied to use by Zhang Ailing, Hong Ying and Yan Geling. In there genious works of interracial love and sex, "woman" completes the job of subversion against the center/margin postcolonial positionalities. Thus, we may come to the conclusion that the marginalization process is fatefully accepted as a part of self-identification in the subaltern culture, but this so-called self-Orientalization, if used properly, might serve as a subverting strategy with destructive power in dismantling the fixed discourse system.