Vol. 2026 No. 4 (2026)
Articles

A parallel study of moment in Peking and gone with the wind

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  • Wenyan Xie ,
  • Margaret Elizabeth Whitfield
Wenyan Xie
Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Margaret Elizabeth Whitfield
University of California, Berkeley,200 California Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Published 24-08-2026

Keywords

  • Moment in Peking,
  • Gone with the Wind,
  • parallel study

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Abstract

Moment in Peking by the Chinese writer Lin Yutang and Gone with the Wind by the American writer Margaret Mitchell are both classics in Eastern and Western literature. The heroines, Yao Mulan and Scarlett O'Hara, have respectively become representative figures of Chinese culture and Western culture. This paper employs a parallel study approach to analyze the two works from the perspectives of characterization, thematic content, narrative techniques, ideological schools, cultural representation, and aesthetic imagery, aiming to deepen readers' understanding of the authors and promote the interpretation of the works.

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