Abstract
<p><em>Xi Yan is one of the protagonists and plays a significant role in Chinglish. The paper applies feminism to analyze Xi Yan and to find out what it represents. As opposed to the traditional women, Xi Yan goes after physical pleasure and spiritual fulfillment and gains both spiritual and physical freedom. In contrast with Chinese men, she performs even better than men and wins a certain economic and social status. In terms of foreign men, she prevails in the relationship with Daniel, which is a symbol of the rise of women that portends the rise of China.</em></p><em>The findings demonstrate that: Xi Yan symbolizes the transformation of modern women from being suppressed to the pursuit of spiritual and physical liberation; she is on behalf of strong women who try to improve the situation of women, in pursuit of equality; and the change in the relative power of male and female reveals the variation tendency of the relative force of the East and the West.</em>
Highlights
Born in Los Angeles in 1957, David Henry Hwang is a famous Chinese-American playwright
Xi Yan symbolizes the transformation of modern women from being suppressed to the pursuit of spiritual and physical liberation and from being soulless and like a breathing corpse to being alive
Viewing Xi Yan as the personification of China and Daniel or Peter as the personification of America, improvement of women’s social status and the rise of women portend the rise of China
Summary
Born in Los Angeles in 1957, David Henry Hwang is a famous Chinese-American playwright. Xi Yan breaks social rules (“the demands of a situation that constitutes her as inessential”) and pursues desires (“the fundamental claim of every subject, which always posits itself as essential”) In this way, she gains both spiritual and physical freedom. She performs very well in the fields of her own business and among the men in the play Putting her talents to good use, she achieves her goal to bring the Culture Minister (Cai ) down and help her husband ( Xu Geming) become new mayor of Guiyang. Speaking, she plays a leading role in the course of story and controls the development. Oriental culture has made a significant impact on Western culture; China has a much better economic situation than America and is going to overtake America
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