A Room of One’s Own in Suzhou: Analyzing the Dissemination of Woolf’s Feminism in China
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220110.137How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Feminism; Gender relations; Modern China; Virginia Woolf; Xu Zhimo
- Abstract
How do the Chinese promoters of the women’s liberation movement in modern China identify females in the face of the discourse of other feminist scholars? Do they completely accept or make a clever transition? As the first person to spread Woolf’s feminist ideas, Xu Zhimo recognizes the important role that women play in cultural production, but subtly avoids Woolf’s idea of female financial independence and gender equality. He ignores the fact that women’s “other” status and male-dominated discourse aggravate the plight of women. Behind it lies the problem of class limitation and unequal relationship between gender power. This article is based on Virginia Woolf’s A room of one’s own and Xu Zhimo’s About women as comparative texts, analyzing the gender relations embodied in the absorption and transition of modern China. It provides a particular view for exploring the development of female consciousness in Modern China.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yaxin Liu PY - 2022 DA - 2022/01/28 TI - A Room of One’s Own in Suzhou: Analyzing the Dissemination of Woolf’s Feminism in China BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Art and Human Development ( ICPAHD 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 718 EP - 721 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220110.137 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220110.137 ID - Liu2022 ER -