Woman question, man's problem: gender relationships in Ding Ling's The sun shines over the Sanggan River and Zhang Ailing's The rice-sprout song

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dc.contributor.authorKuo, Yen-Kuang
dc.contributor.supervisorKing, Richard
dc.date.accessioned2009-08-27T15:11:11Z
dc.date.available2009-08-27T15:11:11Z
dc.date.copyright2009en
dc.date.issued2009-08-27T15:11:11Z
dc.degree.departmentDept. of Pacific and Asian Studiesen
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the theme of gender and power relationships in the works of Ding Ling (1904-1986) and Zhang Ailing (1920-1995), focusing particularly on two novels: Ding Ling’s The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River (1948) and Zhang Ailing’s The Rice-Sprout Song (1954). Through this examination, this thesis demonstrates the critiques by these authors of the CCP and its policies which, while ostensibly guaranteeing equality to women, in actuality do nothing more than reinscribe traditional Confucian gender values. This thesis situates these novels historically, and places them into the context of the author’s other writings. The analysis focuses on three main aspects of these two novels: violence, repression of women’s desire, and female sexuality. Through a close reading informed by a feminist approach to gender relationships, this thesis demonstrates the startling similarities in the critiques of Ding Ling and Zhang Ailing, despite the writers’ different political ideologies and situations in regard to the CCP.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/1646
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben
dc.subjectDing Lingen
dc.subjectZhang Ailingen
dc.subjectModern Chinese literatureen
dc.subjectGender relationshipsen
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Literature::Oriental literatureen
dc.titleWoman question, man's problem: gender relationships in Ding Ling's The sun shines over the Sanggan River and Zhang Ailing's The rice-sprout songen
dc.typeThesisen

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