Meiniang's Novel Writing

In the literary world of the enemy-occupied areas in the 1940s, Meiniang was a famous authoress. Owing to her profound sentiments of loneliness, she depicted a series of women characters with deep sense of loneliness and strong sense of rebelliousness. What is unique about them is that all of them are solitary and they all had irreconcilable conflicts with their families and society. Based on her novels, this paper analyzes her women characters from two different perspectives: the shallow level of her emotional loneliness and the deep level of her spiritual loneliness. It attempts to find the social and historical reasons for her sense of loneliness from her childhood experience, the Chinese and foreign cultural psychology and the special social realities in the enemy-occupied areas. By doing this, it aims to reveal her worries about the fate of Chinese women as a female writer, and her achievements in probing into the psychology of Chinese women.