空间 、 身体 、女权: 中国都市女性写作

Chinese women have been continuous hits in mass media throughout the past decade. While names such as Mian Mian and Wei Hui have caught the attention of readers with their fin de siècle decadent writings, or , “genital writingd” as labeled by some critics, Mu Zimei, Zhuying Qingtong and Sister Lotus have excited netizens with their online sex diaries, hawking details of one-night stands, nude self-portraits, and pictures of flirtatious gestures respectively, which have caused far greater disturbances in China.On top of investigating whether these writers have bravely subverted the sexual hierarchy and avenged traditionally oppressed Chinese women or if they have willingly commercialized and objectified the female body, this article pays special attention to the notion of privacy and its relationship to the rise of the modern city and examines the complexity of privacy and publicity intruding upon one another in literary space. It proposes that contemporary Chinese literature has experienced a metamorphosis from an invasion of the private space by public space, specifically Maoist discourse, during the revolutionary periods to an intrusion of the public space by private space with the help of the Internet in capitalistic-communist China. This article also suggests that what the bad girl writers and bloggers have done would have been a revolution to celebrate the renaissance of the hidden and suppressed body in the traditionally male-orientated Chinese culture and a new representation of feminine consciousness of Chinese women. However, the body, intentionally used as the selling point of the works, has been objectified, marketized, and thus turned into a production of capitalist consumerism. As a result, instead of discovering the feminine consciousness, the female body serves to signify a re-entrapment of femininity by male chauvinism