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Among second-generation New Literature female writers, Bai Wei was among the small handful who wrote with a female heart, instead of a gender-neutral brain. This may be because her own story plays like a woman’s drama in Chinese modernity.
Bai Wei, penname of Huang Zhang (1893–1987), modern woman writer.
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Linli, a poetic drama written by Bai Wei in 1925, explores themes of love and betrayal.
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Breaking out of Ghost Pagoda, written by Bai Wei in 1928, is one of her most well-known plays.
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Paradise is another of Bai Wei’s major plays.
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“Suffering Women,” is Bai Wei’s short story.
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White Snake, a snake-spirit-turned woman, is the legendary heroine in the Madame White Snake Jailed Eternally in the Leifeng Pagoda by Feng Menglong (1574–1646). The white snake, Bai Suzhen, transforms into a woman and falls in love with a human named Xu Xian. According to Madame White Snake Jailed Eternally in the Leifeng Pagoda, the White Snake is finally suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda by a Confucian monk, Fahai. Leifeng Pagoda has become a symbol of supressing the female, and also a famous tower for sightseeing and popular folk stories, which is located on Sunset Hill, south of the West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
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The Guangzhou Uprising was a failed communist uprising in the city of Guangzhou (Canton) in southern China in 1927.
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Jing, whose full name is Zhang Jing, is the main character of “Disillusion,” Huanmie, which was written by Mao Dun in 1927, collecting in Eclipse.
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Mao Dun’s three novellas, “Wavering,” “Disillusion” and “Pursuit,” consist of a trilogy, all published in the 1928 collection, Eclipse.
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Meng, Y., Dai, J. (2023). Bai Wei: A Survivor of Ordeals. In: Emerging from the Horizon of History. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4004-2_11
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