Author(s)

Wantong Huang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Humanities and Law, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510630, China

Corresponding Author

Wantong Huang

ABSTRACT

Dream of the Red Chamber, written by Cao Xueqin, renowned as one of the greatest Chinese novels, has produced significant and lasting impacts on literati of all generations for its profound life philosophies, broad philosophical framework, and unique understanding of the universe. Eileen Chang's lifelong fondness for Dream of the Red Chamber, in which the tragic fate of women is prominently manifested, has influenced her novel writing styles. Beginning with Eileen Chang's emotional attachment to Dream of the Red Chamber, this paper discusses the similarities between Eileen Chang and Cao Xueqin in terms of life experience, mentality, and aesthetic preference and analyzes the influence of Dream of the Red Chamber on female images created by Eileen Chang ideological-wise, artistic-wise, and aesthetic-wise. In terms of writing, Eileen Chang has integrated the tone and mood of classic novels with modern novels, inherited the aesthetics, and created female images that strongly echo Dream of the Red Chamber.

KEYWORDS

Dream of the Red Chamber; Eileen Chang; female image

CITE THIS PAPER

Wantong Huang, Echos of Dream of the Red Chamber in the Female Images of Eileen Chang's Fictions. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 159-164. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070323.

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