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This thesis aims at studying the novels of Su Wei-chen from the writer''s handling of the emotional and sexual desires in romantic and marital settings and of the influence and restrain of conventional morals imposed on women. This study further attempts at demonstrating the achievement through unveiling the writer''s loyal depiction of their pains in creating the bias reading effects.Chapter I analyses the formation of conventional concepts of women''s morale code, talent and gender role. The male dominant society resulted from agricultural productivity and gender work delegation are used to examine the basis of the Four Books which stresses female morale virtues over talents as well as its influence and restrains on the development of women'' s intellectual and sexual aspects.Chapter II cites the Red Chamber Dream in analyzing the two stereotypes of maiden talents represented by Lin Dai-yu and Hsueh Pao-tsai for literary and moral virtues respectively. The two characters are compared in the aspects of female talent, morals and roles.Chapter III investigates the two types of maiden talents in the writing of Su Wei-chen. The main focus is directed at the modern female talents'' sexual repression in their views of romance and the virtuous women of military family community inherent in Lin Dai- yu and Hsueh Pao-tsai respectively. Further delineation is presented to illustrate how the latter''s virtues are revered as the symbols of the military family community and how the sacrifices of these women are used to generate identification with the groups migrated from China in creating their role as protectors of the nation.Chapter IV addresses the romance novel series of Su Wei-chen in analyzing the writer''s embrace of chaste virtue and the faith in lasting romance which resulted in the narcissistic, masochistic and sadistic natures of the female characters in terms of romance. Subject to the social structure of male dominance and the complex of Joan of Arch, the intended emotional and sexual writings of Su Wei-chen failed are in fact descriptions of abstraction. The power of masculinity is also mystified which is demonstrated through the approach of centring on male genitals. Such results can be traced back to the influence of conventional morale codes imposed on women.
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