Sex for Sex’s Sake?: The “Genital Writings” of the Chinese Bad-Girl Writers

The three decades since the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) have witnessed a dramatic change in Chinese women’s literature from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Zhang Jie’s “Love Must Not Be Forgotten” written in 1979 and in some ways inaugurating post-Mao women’s writings, is known...

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1. Verfasser: Shelley W. Chan
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Zusammenfassung:The three decades since the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) have witnessed a dramatic change in Chinese women’s literature from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Zhang Jie’s “Love Must Not Be Forgotten” written in 1979 and in some ways inaugurating post-Mao women’s writings, is known for its questioning of the Cultural Revolution era’s taboo on sympathetic portrayals of love outside of marriage. In this story, the male and female protagonists are afflicted with love for each other and the impossibility of being together, for the man has a wife whom he married out of a sense of responsibility