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Urban Experience and Self-awareness of Female Characters in Eileen Chang’s Novels: A Case Study of Love in a Falling City

Authors
Ruoyi Wang1, *
1Chinese Language and Literature, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, China
*Corresponding author. Email: yblingblingi@163.com
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Ruoyi Wang
Available Online 29 August 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-094-7_3How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Zhang Ailing; Love in a Falling City; Bai Liusu; Urban experience; self-awareness
Abstract

As a representative writer of Shanghai literature, Eileen Chang has created many female images in her novels. Through marriage, family and other themes, she shows the survival plight and spiritual burden of urban women in urban life from a female perspective, revealing her deep concern for women’s survival. Taking Love in a Falling City as an example, through the protagonist Bai Liusu’s “departure” and “return” in the urban experience under the background of Shanghai and Hong Kong twin cities, this paper expounds the relationship between the incomplete female self-consciousness and the urban experience behind it under the impact of the new and old in the typical Chinese transition period, and reflects the awakening and transformation of women’s thoughts in the trend of The Times. It is of great significance to the pursuit of women’s urban experience and self-consciousness.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2023)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
29 August 2023
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10.2991/978-2-38476-094-7_3
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2352-5398
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