HSIU-CHIH TSAI2024-03-042024-03-042007-01-0102777126https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/640234This paper aims at addressing how the question of Chinese female sexuality is questioned and challenged by the Chinese woman writer Geling Yan's novella "White Snake" (1999). By adopting a similar title to the famous traditional Chinese monster story that narrates a white serpent transformed herself into a pretty lady to pursue and experience human love, Geling Yan's novella carries the mimicry of the theme by portraying her protagonist as a serpent-embodying woman whose sexual power was deemed abnormal and monstrous. This imprisoned woman as a monstrous other, though sinuously gazed, desired and mocked, her monstrous sexuality, not as the un-human, but as the conflation where the social and cultural anxiety encounters the fear of desire and the difference, is given the chance to be re-initiated, re-directed and unleashed into another heterogeneous state and territory of the unsaid and unnamed behind the traditional cultural prison house.journal article10.5840/ajs2007231/4102-s2.0-84880403973https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84880403973&origin=resultslist