Thus Speaks The Narrator.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (363 pages)
- Kaleidoscope: Ethnic Chinese Writers (I) .
- Kaleidoscope: Ethnic Chinese Writers (I) .
As a female author, Zhao Mei has the propensity to write from a specifically feminist perspective and all the essays collected in this book are, without any exception, concerned with women's issues. They encompass her commentaries on Prominent women figures in Chinese history such as Empress Wu Zetian, Princess Gao Yang and actresses like Eileen Chanf, Hu Die and Ruan Lingyu, who lived during the era of the Republic of China; and interpretations of the distinguished women writers in the West such as Viginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvir and Marguerite Duras. In addition, the author sets out to decipher the racial characteristics of her own ethnic group and its racial identity.