Abstract

As the threshold in the feminist study of Chinese literature under their national characteristics should focus. Confucian culture and spirit-led women's ethics, the history of Chinese women is the main location of the absent "culprit." However, Confucian ethics to women experiencing a phenomenon of antinomies. Confucian ethics of women placed in the female German "slave" status, the Confucian ethics of filial piety in China "cult of motherhood," the historical and cultural background of women in turn as a mother pushed to the social and cultural expression are the main location. This situation is different from the western Chinese women to form women's particularity and complexity, but also the ancient Chinese literature, "goddess" image and mother-like in male subordination "Women from the" image of the polarization performance of the reason. It led to the Chinese women in the self-consciousness, self-consciousness in the liberation of the whole to slow in Western women. Though the female ethics dominated by Confucius cultural spirit is the "prime criminal" of the female subject absence in Chinese female history, it is indeed a dilemma toward female. In the one hand, the ethics puts woman in a subordinate position; on the other hand, the filial piety in the ethics situates woman in the image of mother to the subjective position for social cultural representation. Such a dilemma may explain the unique and complex condition of Chinese female which deviated from that of Western females. The two extremes of Goddess and female submission seen in classic Chinese literature lead to the delaying of Chinese female's self-awareness and self-libration comparing with her Western counterpart