Three Faces Of Eve

Because women are marginalized by the culture of patriarchy, male intellectuals, who dominate the power of interpretation of letters, adopt many kinds of discursive strategy in discussing ,creating and packaging the image of women, which can be called a "representation". The gender emphasizes the influence of culture. Form the view of it, we can discover the power of discourse. It also explores that the male discourse may form false value through the illusion of female images subjectively, which makes women's tragic character to be inevitability.This paper analyses the "representation" of Lie-Nv Chuan form the perspective of gender. Firstly, it discusses of the reason why liu-siang wrote Lie-Nv Chuan (Biographies of Chinese Women) as an ethic textbook. Due to this ethic aim, the author praised a female who was good at assisting and willing to obey the male, and considered that an ideal male-dominated society was composed by basic idea that the female had to obey the male. Falling into this perspective, the readers may explain historical texts or literatures concerned with female as if the tragic images only represent women. This article tries to reread Lie-Nv Chuan by cross-examination of social and cultural background. On the one hand, what kind of discursive strategy the author, Liu-siang, used in the "representation", which question will wait to be analyzed;On the other hand, it wants to expound that the women's survival space is quite broad and they can lead a flexible life in the symbolic order of Confucianism. Actually, women are beyond the restraint of gender, exhibiting the remarkable talent in all respects of social life, especially in literature. Their works can excavate women's internal experiences that are constrained.