How Zhang Ailing s feminine consciousness was formed

In Zhang Ailing's pen, when women are faced with the choice of "making a living" and "seeking love", survival is always put first by women, and in the face of realistic survival, love can only become a myth. Zhang Ailing reluctantly reveals the existential dilemma that women cannot break through. All the women in Zhang Ailing's pen are made into "female maritals".

The first category is Zheng Chuanchang in "Flower Withering", the second category is Ge Weilong in "Agarwood Crumbs, The First Incense", and the third category is Wu Cuiyuan in "Blockade".

The profundity of Eileen Chang's interpretation of the plight of women lies not only in her description of the reality of women's oppression in a patriarchal society, but also in her further description of the reality of women's habitual dependence on men and the killing of women. Many of the women in Eileen Chang's depictions have consciously become defenders of a patriarchal society, and the "reward" they receive is to have supreme power.

However, the emotions evoked by such female figures in the reader are not all hatred, but very complex emotions, which lies in the meticulous and in-depth psychological analysis that Zhang Ailing gives these characters a reasonable explanation for their behavior.

On the one hand, Zhang Ailing is a strict critic of her female images, but on the other hand, she also gives all the praise to women. Those women, like the "mother earth", are also like the women in the wild world in the bouncing play, because of the difficult living environment, they have created their tenacious vitality. Through writing, Zhang Ailing got rid of the fate of "when women write, how can those male values have already been stationed in it", and escaped the influence of the androcentric view in the patriarchal society, thus deconstructing the central position of men, which makes her have a female consciousness beyond that era.

1. Zhang Ailing is a person with a lot of stories and a controversial character.

Zhang Ailing's character gathers a lot of contradictions: she is a hedonist who is good at turning art into life and living art, and she is also a person who is full of tragedy about life; She is a famous lady, but she proudly declares that she is a self-reliant citizen; She is sad and compassionate, and always sees the "pitiful" behind the "ridiculousness" of all living beings, but in real life, she seems indifferent and unkind; She is well-versed in the world, but she herself does her own thing no matter how she treats others and dresses. She is at home with readers in her articles, but she always keeps a distance from outsiders from peeking into her heart; She was a big hit in Shanghai in the 40s, but decades later, she lived in seclusion in the United States, living in isolation, so much so that some people said:

Only Zhang Ailing can endure the dazzling noise and extreme loneliness at the same time. ”

2. Character Profile:

Zhang Ailing, a modern Chinese writer, is originally from Tangshan City, Hebei Province, and her original name is Zhang Lang. He was born on September 30, 1920 in a declining aristocratic mansion in the western district of the Shanghai Public Concession.

In 1944, Zhang Ailing became acquainted with Hu Lancheng and had a relationship with her. In 1973, Eileen Chang settled in Los Angeles, and on September 8, 1995, coinciding with the Mid-Autumn Festival, Eileen Chang's landlord found her dead in her apartment on Rochester Avenue in Westwood, California, at the age of 75 due to arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular disease, and she had been dead for a week when she was found. On September 30, a memorial service was held for her by her former friends, and after the memorial service, her ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.

Eileen Chang's works mainly include **, essays, film scripts and literary treatises, and her letters have also been studied as part of her writings.

3. Character evaluation:

In 1961, Xia Zhiqing in his English masterpiece "Modern Chinese History", the author discovered and demonstrated the literary history status of important writers such as Zhang Ailing, Zhang Tianyi, Qian Zhongshu, Shen Congwen, etc., which had a far-reaching influence, especially Zhang Ailing. Zhang Ailing has always been considered a popular ** family, in the eyes of critics she "does not appear in the hall of elegance", but Xia Zhiqing gave Zhang Ailing more than twice as much length in the ** history as Lu Xun's, and he even thinks that Zhang Ailing's "The Golden Lock" is "the greatest novella in China since ancient times". (Phoenix.com).

Zhang Ailing is of course an unborn genius, her writing style is very interesting, like bypassing the literature of the May Fourth period, directly from the vein of "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Golden Vase Plum", Zhang Ailing's ** language is purer, it is an authentic Chinese, and her traditional Chinese cultural attainments are actually very deep. (Famous contemporary writer Bai Xianyong).

Only ** is the meaning of Zhang Ailing. Therefore, the result of the realization is to snatch Zhang Ailing out of **, and then return it to **. (Wang Anyi, a famous contemporary Chinese female writer).

All I know is that Eileen Chang is a woman who writes books.

I have only one answer to her: a smart fool.

Zhang Ailing's understanding of women is very thorough, because she is a woman herself, so her understanding of women is relatively complete.