Female Mirror Image: Self-discovery and Modern China——on Reading Dream Creator (Mengke) by DING Ling

DING Ling's debut Dream Creator, with Sophie as its predecessor, has long been neglected by critics. If the subject experiences are cast onto the transformation and development of modern China, and both in harmony as an organic whole, it is worthy of thinking deeply in the looming intertextuality writing mode. This paper attempts from the perspective of female imageto interpret how Dream Creator to integrate female self-discovery/save with modernity pain in China in the same narrative by means of dual attitudes towards project with multiple choice by the intellectual women in the novel in the face of male/female, career/marriage, and urban/rural.