Jie Xue
Shanghai Nenry Investment Information Consulting Ltd., Shanghai 201102, China.
*Corresponding author: Jie Xue
Abstract
Lin Hai-yin and Eileen Chang were two outstanding models of female writers in twentieth-century China. Their literary works were inextricably linked with these places because they were living in Beijing and Shanghai; it also became an indispensable part of their literature. Meanwhile, as female writers, they bring a distinct viewpoint on gender issues, marriage, and life via their female perspective. On the other hand, Lin and Chang were born the year before and the year after the May Fourth Movement, respectively, and grew up in the turbulent atmosphere of the times while also being baptized by the new literature. Lin employed language sympathetically since she inherited the gentle pulse of the May Fourth women writers. Unlike Lin, who considered harmony as the precondition to regard gender relations, Chang emphasized the sharp conflict between genders because of her parents’ disharmonious marriage, which imprinted a nick in her heart, therefore Chang has more avant-garde in her literary creation.
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How to cite this paper
A Comparison of Lin Hai-yin's Beijing School Literature and Eileen Chang's Shanghai School Literature from a Female Perspective
How to cite this paper: Jie Xue. (2025) A Comparison of Lin Hai-yin's Beijing School Literature and Eileen Chang's Shanghai School Literature from a Female Perspective. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, 9(2), 394-397.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2025.02.030