The ideological ‘conversion’ of modern Chinese intellectuals in the 1930s has a very important significance. Ding Ling was at the center of change among the Chinese intellectuals at the time. One of the keywords that must be mentioned to explain D...
The ideological ‘conversion’ of modern Chinese intellectuals in the 1930s has a very important significance. Ding Ling was at the center of change among the Chinese intellectuals at the time. One of the keywords that must be mentioned to explain Ding Ling is ‘conversion’. As such, Ding Ling's ideological, literary, and identity conversion is a very important part of understanding Ding Ling's literary world. What is to be noted here is the rediscovery of Ding Ling as a boundary person created by her multi-layered identity.
Ding Ling's In the Hospital is a work that reveals Ding Ling's thought and psychological state during this period. Furthermore, it can be said that the situation in which Lu Ping is placed, the main character in this work, was not only Ding Ling faced, but also the modern Chinese intellectuals at the time. Therefore, the analysis of this is also very important.
In order to examine the above, this paper seeks to analyze the narrative allegory and various meanings of the work from the symbolic meaning of the image of “disease”, the space of obstetrics and gynecology as a borderline space, and the status of doctors in it to reveal identity as a marginal person.