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Lin Huiyin was born in 1904 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. She is a poet, essayist and China's first female architect, and married liang Sicheng who named "the father of Chinese architecture" in 1928. They have made great contributions to the development of Chinese architecture and the preservation of cultural relics (Shih, P155-156). Liang and Lin both received their higher education abroad at the University of Pennsylvania (Kalman, P4). As a literary writer and architectural historian, Lin huiyin rebuilt the capital from the aspects of cultural tradition, architectural beauty, historical significance and living conditions of the people. Meanwhile, Lin Huiyin participated in the design of the "National emblem" and the "Monument to The People's Heroes" (Song, P87).

Lin Huiyin is well known for her many poems and essays. Her essays are full of delicate feelings and combine with the musical sense in the Chinese poetic tradition. Her novels are full of modern contents, such as the most famous "In Neight-Nine Degree Heart" and "Fragments of Vague Impressions"(Song, P72). Similarly, Lin Huiyin and other writers also participated in the "May fourth" Movement. However, "gender" has a great irony for the national cultural revival of the May Fourth Movement. Under the hegemony of antitraditionalism, it makes the environment for female writers more difficult. Lin huiyin skillfully integrates the aesthetics of Tang poetry into the language and syntax of modernism, and USES the traditional literary practice of episodic narration to combat the gender determinants of these idioms. Lin Huiyin was fond of free love and ideal, but the ideal of free love in May 4th turned into the tragic deficiency of idealism in the social background, which only exacerbated the pain of gender oppression (Shin,P203-221).


 * Kalman Harold. (2018). ‘Chinese Spirit in Modern Strength’ : Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin, and Early Modernist Architecture in China. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, 58, 154.
 * Carles Prado-Fonts. (2010). Fragmented Encounters, Social Slippages: Lin Huiyin’s “In Ninety-Nine Degree Heat.” Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat, 16, 125–141.
 * SONG, W. (2014). The Aesthetic versus the Political: Lin Huiyin and Modern Beijing. Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), 36, 61-94. Retrieved September 29, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/43490200
 * Ng, J., & Wickeri, J. (1996). May fourth women writers : memoirs. Research Centre for Translation, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
 * Shih, Shu-Mei. The Lure of the Modern : Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937, University of California Press, 2001. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ualberta/detail.action?docID=223146.