Raising Daughters and Sons in Contemporary Chinese Fictions

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dc.abstract.enThis literature review examines representations of family relationships in contemporary Chinese fiction, focusing specifically on mother-daughter and father-son dynamics. Both relationships are generally portrayed as more conflicted than warm. In the mother-daughter relationship, the daughter both loves and hates her mother at the same time. By “scrutinizing” her mother, the maturing daughter gains a sense of gender identity and the two eventually forge an alliance grounded in sisterhood. Similarly, the son holds a dual attitude towards his father that graduates from negation to reevaluation. Although he challenges the authority and ideals associated with fatherhood, he also revers his father as a figure with admirable qualities such as decisiveness and morality. The son fails in seeking the absent father who is portrayed as a spiritual leader, eventually realizing that he can only seek his own self. The paper identifies a trend in Chinese New Era fiction of breaking traditional parental myths, positioning fathers and mothers in the roles of ordinary women and men. As narrators, daughters and sons are portrayed in their search for their own identity in relation to their parents. This review provides fundamental insights for further exploration of key themes in Chinese contemporary literature, such as the evolving dynamics of family relationships and the construction of individual subjectivity.
dc.affiliationKatedra Studiów Azjatyckich
dc.affiliationWydział Nauk Humanistycznych w Warszawie
dc.contributor.authorWang, Yun
dc.date.access2024-11
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-14T11:21:18Z
dc.date.available2025-11-14T11:21:18Z
dc.date.created2024
dc.date.issued2024-11
dc.description.accesstimeat_publication
dc.description.issue2
dc.description.physical99-118
dc.description.sdgGenderEquality
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume23
dc.identifier.issn1336-3786
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/1993
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://fphil.uniba.sk/fileadmin/fif/katedry_pracoviska/kvas/SOS_23_2/SOS_23_2.pdf
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationliteraturoznawstwo
dc.rightsCC-BY
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dc.share.articleOPEN_JOURNAL
dc.subject.enfamily relationships
dc.subject.enmother-daughter relationship
dc.subject.engender recognition
dc.subject.ensisterhood
dc.subject.enfather-son relationship
dc.subject.enseeking the self
dc.subject.encontemporary Chinese literature
dc.swps.sciencecloudsend
dc.titleRaising Daughters and Sons in Contemporary Chinese Fictions
dc.title.journalStudia Orientalia Slovaca
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle