Women's Road

Ding Ling is a peculiar writer in the modern and contemporary era. There are countless topics in her different style of writings and labyrinthian political fate.These various controversy seem to have a relationship with Ding Ling's"turn left"in 1930s.Looking at previous research on Ding Ling's transformation, both the agreement from political point of view and the pity from artistic point of view focus on evaluation of success and failure,then limit at the mode of binary opposition.So the study of the internal ideological driving force and continuity in transformation has been neglected.Among intellectual,revolutionary and female three roles,Ding Ling's sexual consciousness makes her have peculiar temperament in the whole writings that different from other writers and becomes a internal clue. This thesis will discuss Ding Ling's thinking on the way of women and connect the idea of writings before and after"turn left"transformation by analyzing representational novels in every period and surrounding intersexual relationship at female standpoint.The way of Ding Ling's novel writing may generally be divided into three stages. In The Darkness(1928), Suicide Diary(1929),A Woman(1930) three books are named as Self-sentimental novels. Ding Ling made a sound as the deputy of modern women in the late May Fourth Movement."Sha Feis"longed for perfect man after they walked out feudal family, whereas they were despairing because all of the men around them were wretched.It is the second period from Wei Hu to Flood.At this time, revolution brought the recovery of male power.Male revolutionaries such as Wei Hu,Ruo Quan became women's guides and dominated the intersexul relationship.But the non-rational transformation is the reason of the conflict between Ding Ling and revolutionary system. This also is muddle about the way of women at the third stage of her novel writing.When I was in Xia Village and In the Hospital reflect the rift between women and the system which male revolutionaries allied through narrating women being in in a devil of hole after they dedicated to revolution.Faced to the strong regime,weak femal voices were blocked by political discourse.Only women reorganized into male ideological system can survive.All of things are reflected by Sun shines Sang Gan River.However self-hypnosis of partisanship is unceasingly strengthened,sexual consciousness oppressed goes out inconsciently.Therefore the evaluations are still complicated on Ding Ling's novels that considered be written after transformation.The way that women look for perfect men and follow male revolutionaries into system ,then are forced to reorganized as class presents Ding Ling's thinking on modern women's labyrinthian fate.This is also Ding Ling's life portrayal of the ups and downs.