The Binary Opposition of Male and Female Subjectivity In Chinese American Literature

In Chinese American literary works, self-representation of the Chinese Americans has distinct gender classification. Male writers concern themselves with male roles, hoping to re-establish the subjective status of male Chinese Americans by shaping the masculinity; while female writers focus on the construction of female subjectivity in order to flow in the stream of feminism. However, the establishment of male roles is consciously or unconsciously at the cost of sacrificing the female images and the construction of female subjectivity aims at the criticism of male centralism. Therefore the binary opposition between male and female writers comes into being.