Order·Feminism·Revolution--the "Nora" Controversy In The Middle Of 1930s

Ibsenism was officially translated to China by new intellectuals in May 4th period.The reason why Hu Shi and other new intellectuals advocated Ibsenism and recognized the value of "Nora" from different angles is that hoping to "solve the ideological problems by using the Ibsenism(Nora)"."A mass exodus event" got the ideological enlightenment into practice.When Lu Xun started to reflect the spirits of the May 4th Movement,the question of "what will happen to Nora after she leaves" would get a response with the course of history in the 1930s.As a representative of the two major foreign thoughts in the 1930s,the fact of "women going home" in the Soviet Union and Germany is shaped into two extremes by the Chinese different factions,which is to serve to ideological discourse battle that happening in China.The argument of "women going home" in the middle of 1930s was called the second great debate in the history of Chinese women’s thought after May 4th.In order to maintain "order" and integrate individual power into the country,the kitchen school asked"Nora" who had left home since May 4th to go home again,which was accompanied by the national government’s "new life movement" rising and fascism flourishing.In this case,the voice of "women going home" and "modern philosophy of devoted wife and mother" was full of the whole society.However,feminist couldn’t bear to let women return to the bondage of traditional moral codes again,they also didn’t agree with the view that made the value of women attach to a larger and more radical social revolution.On the contrary,they hoped to "tick some small stumbling blocks off"so as to reform society,which was criticized severely by the social school.The social school pursued thorough reform of social system,sothey claimed that the woman’s liberation movement should follow the movement of the national liberation and social liberation,which is their way of women’s liberation movement.The social school abandoned the feminist theory completely through "historical description" of "feminist movement",so Nora’s time passed.The power sources of new woman’s liberation movement would be from the bottom of the public,the image of woman’s oppression would regain life by importing into the framework of class oppression.In order to realize the ideal of the new society,many women embarked on a new journey under the guidance of the new theory.The plays of "Nora" were performed intensively under such a circumstance,so the year of 1935 was described as "Nora year".We can find it is the Left-Wing Drama Writers Alliance that manipulates these shows after further study of these performances.In order to deal with the terror environment of Shanghai in mid 1930s,they have to take this kind of special temperate struggle strategies.All kinds of events around the "Nora"shows imply the complex struggle between the Left and the Nanjing national government.As a real individual,some of the "Nora" began to abandon the "Nora doctrine",they turned over to make themselves’ value into the idea of reforming "new society".The discourse debate of "Nora" tide embodies more and more deeper ideological difference in the mid-1930s in Chinese society.