Women's Revenge: Male Violence vs Female Masculinity in The New Woman (1935) and The Price of Madness (1988)

This paper addresses the issue of female masculinity in both 1930s' and 1980s' China. It involves heated cultural debates on "modern women" centered on a struggle to identify female subjectivity. On the one hand, it re-examines basic social norms, such as gender relations from a feminist perspective. On the other hand, it acknowledges democratic value that is no longer attached to the imaginative world created by men, but is rather endorsed by the call for gender equality, fighting against any new forms of male dominance.