Volume 12, Issue 1/2, 2022
Retro III: As We Restart
Yizhong Ning
Pages 187-191
A Double Vein of Feminized Anxiety in Modernity and Contemporaneity
Translating and commenting on two poems by Han Bo, “Modern Organ” and “The Big Killer,” that both focus on techno-scientific modernity and anxiety in the contemporary time and its impact on female subjectivity, this essay reflects on such an asymmetrically gendered burden of modern material progress to show that the embedded and added patriarchal obstacles, undeniably there, should be taken seriously. How, then, to achieve a more balanced gender equality in the modern time is a question that remains challenging for all.