The Gender-cultural Perspective Zhang Henshui And Jin Yong Comparative Study

ZhangHenshui and JinYong are famous feuilletonists in the history of Chinese literature in the20th century. They have many differences and something in common in their literary creation. These similarities and differences have business with the popular literature obviously. It makes the comparative research on them possible as well as interesting, and it is meaningful to understand the Chinese popular literature in the20th century from analyzing the similarities and differences about ZhangHenhui and JinYong's literary creation. As the famous feuilletonists in the history of Chinese literature in the20th century, the comparative research between them has not been fully developed, and the comparative research between them from the gender visual angle is still an academic blank.The gender is a concept that keeps close touch with the literature, and the popular novel keeps closer connection with the gender than other literary styles. The sexual elements that related with the literature are rich and complex in ZhangHenshui and JinYong's literary creation. It is not only connected with the writer's biological gender, social gender and psychosocial gender, but also related with the gender performance in the novels and the readers'physiological gender, social gender, psychosocial gender, etc. So it is easier to near the writers'inner world and their works'essence from the gender visual angle.In this paper,"gender aesthetic" is a literary criticism concept that has the "gender poetics" as its base. It is based on the gender but not only the gender, pay attention to the gender but beyond the gender. It is based on the differences about man and woman, trying to put a lot of literary phenomenon about the writers, the works and the readers into the concept:"gender aesthetic", and exploring all kinds of gender performance in the literary creation and the literary appreciation. It includes the criticism about the phallocentrism, and the rational observation to the gender phenomenon about the literature.From introduction to epilogue, this paper has discussed five questions as follows: No1:Under the influence of the physiological gender and the social gender, gender transcendentalism and male centralism exist in Zhanghenshui and Jinyong's fictions. No2:The psychosocial gender of ZhangHenshui and JinYong are more complex than their physiological gender, it makes their gender view deviated from the male centralism. No3:The literary creation of ZhangHenshui and JinYong has some Bisexual temperament that based on the androgyny.No4:The modern civilization and the traditional culture have the dual influences to the writer's opinion of the gender and it exists in the literature works. No5:The consumption culture and the writer's marriage and love also influence the gender expression in the novels.This paper is divided into seven parts. We can get some conclusions by means of the above argument. It's possible to get the deep understanding of writers and their works through the gender aesthetic; It includes the recognition and acceptance about the feminism literary criticism, but not being limited by the feminism literary criticism; It has the gender conflicts, also has the sexual harmony; The sex element in ZhangHenshui and JinYong's novels has the consistency that based on male-chauvinism, and also has the otherness that based on the writer's and the reader's difference. In addition, the intricate influence coming from the writer's marriage and the consumption culture also makes the academic research interesting.