Feminism in Susie Chao’s Sai Jinhua

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10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.151How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Sai Jinhua; women’s sense of independence; feminism

Abstract

Sai Jinhua is a controversial female for her impact on the history of late Qing and Early Republican China. From late Qing Dynasty till now, there are continuous research and literary creation on Sai Jinhua. Susie Chao, a Swiss of Chinese ancestry writer, creates the novel Sai Jinhua from the perspective of a female writer who lives abroad for a long time. She makes detailed description of Sai Jinhua’s controversial life experience. This paper takes the novel Sai Jinhua as the analysis object, and believes that through describing the survival, awakening and resistance of prostitute group represented by Sai Jinhua during the historical development process, the author not only shows the readers the impact of social custom of the time on female development objectively, but also provides brand new view for understanding and evaluating the historical figure, Sai Jinhua. The character image of Sai Jinhua in the works of the writer is the historical figure under Chinese cultural background; meanwhile, it is also the flag with western women’s sense of independence and feminism thought.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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