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Comparative Study of Xu Kun’s Short Story <Chu Fang> and <Zao Yu Ai Qing>
The Journal of Chinese Cultural Studies
2019,
(44), pp.49-66
DOI : 10.18212/cccs.2019..44.003
Publisher : The Society For Chinese Cultural Studies
Research Area : Chinese Culture
DOI : 10.18212/cccs.2019..44.003
Publisher : The Society For Chinese Cultural Studies
Research Area : Chinese Culture
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Xu Kun is one of the most prominent new writers of the 90s in Chinese contemporary literature. Since the start of her literature work in 1993, she has created a work that focuses on the survival of intellectual class with a dual identity of scholars and writers. <Zao Yu Ai Qing> take the male character as the main character, describes male-female relationships that are dominated by money in a commercialized Chinese society. She was generally regarded as a scholarly writer, but her short story the <Chu Fang>, created in 1997, is evaluated as a work by a pure feminist writer. Chinese society has been in the 90s, with the development of market economy, the position of intellectuals has been pushed to the periphery of society. Of course, female literature has been pushed around more. This paper is based on the concept of 90s, which is a specific time frame set of space, would like to study how the economic development of China has affected the gender identity of women and men. In this paper, a comparative study of <Chu Fang> and <Zao Yu Ai Qing> was carried out in four parts, in the first chapter, discussed the return of knowledge women to the kitchen. A woman who refuses the kitchen returns to the kitchen for love but eventually is rejected by the men she loves. Through the study of Chapter 2, we can see that the success of women has a contradictory relation with the gender identity of women. In the third chapter, analyzed the relationship between business and true love for divorced middle-age women. In the last chapter, learned about a new group of women who emerged as the background of Chinese society in the 90′s.
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