caa a22 4500 386374414 CHVBK 20180307112011.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305741000018476 doi S0305741000018476 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305741000018476 Roberts Rosemary A. Images of Women in the Fiction of Zhang Jie and Zhang Xinxin [Elektronische Daten] [Rosemary A. Roberts] Zhang Xinxin and Zhang Jie are two contemporary Chinese women writers. They began to publish in the post-Cultural Revolution era, and became well-known in the early 1980s for their fictional depiction of the problems of urban intellectual women attempting to resolve conflicts between love and career, love and marriage, and ideals and reality. Although the works of both authors present a limited challenge to traditions they believe have served to oppress women, a clear generational difference is perceptible in the attitudes they each express through their characters. Zhang Jie, born in 1937 and reaching adulthood in the idealistic climate of the 1950s, presents characters strongly influenced by both Confucian morality and socialist ideals, while Zhang Xinxin, who was born in 1953 and grew up during the Cultural Revolution period (a disillusioning experience for most of her generation), presents characters who show little enthusiasm for political ideals and are less constrained by traditional morality. Copyright © The China Quarterly 1989 The China Quarterly Cambridge University Press 120(1989-12), 800-813 0305-7410 120<800 1989 120 CQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741000018476 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741000018476 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Roberts Rosemary A. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The China Quarterly Cambridge University Press 120(1989-12), 800-813 0305-7410 120<800 1989 120 CQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge