Editing Mao Dun (section)

== Transition of female characters ==
The 1930s is a turning point of the female characters' identity in Mao Dun's works. Between the 1920s and the 1930s, which was also the early period of Mao Dun's writing career, the female characters occurring in his works mostly were in identity of "[[New Woman]]", for instance, Mrs. Gui (桂阿姨) and Qionghua (琼华) in ''Wild Rose'' (野蔷薇, 1929), Ms. Mei (梅小姐) in ''Rainbow'' (虹, 1930).<ref name=":2" />

However, from the 1930s, the "New Woman" characters in Mao Dun's works started to be replaced by the women who were living in traditional Chinese family. Furthermore, female characters even started to lose their own names. As in one of Mao Dun's short novels, which was released in the 1930s, Shui zaoxing (水藻行), the only female character did not even have an actual name but only be called as "Xiusheng (one of the two main male characters)'s wife (秀生妻)"<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Chen|first=Yu-shih|date=1993|title=False Harmony: Mao Dun on Women and Family|journal=[[Modern Chinese Literature]]|volume=7|pages=131–152}}</ref> in the novel.