Morbid Beauty of Females in Lin Bai's Novels

Abstract

Chinese female writer Lin Bai's works are considered representative of China's feminist literature in the 1990s. Sex is a major theme of Lin's novels. Lin focuses on alienation of females' sexual consciousness in modern commodity economy era. From the standpoint of feminist writing, in an extremely personalized tone, she writes of modern females' efforts to be rid of patriarchal discourse and realize their own value. However, the morbid beauty of females embodied in her novels and tragic life of female characters reflect setbacks to the efforts.