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Malaysian-Chinese writer,Li-Zishu is well known not only because she is a winner of literature awards,by the way,her works which put in much efforts in presenting the Malaysian society making she to be one of the writers who can well represent Malaysian Chinese Literature.As a female and a daughter,she observes the gender dilemma suffered by the female in Malaysian society who has always been “the others” in patriarchy society and families.Male elder members always been the master in a Chinese family,causing difficulties for the female family members who are forced to follow the rules and embrassments.Being a female writer,Li-Zishu expressed her sympathies in bringing out the characters to the readers.In the other way,she too gazed on the bodies of male characters and finally castray on them. The suffering of bodies comes from sins,the bodies of those characters are always the mirror or stage to present the dilemma.While the dilemma facing by the characters are always the consequences of “sins”,bringing the characters to sickness and death.But,supernatural bodies are created to be the saviours,although remained fancied and mythical, these bodies have already been the fillers in human bodies’deficiencies of the characters who have been identified as a loser in reality.
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