The paper ponders on three trends of feminine writing: miserable feminine development,desolate spiritual redemption and sharp historical criticism,exploring some similarities and differences among their works.

The author maintains that CHANG Yao s poetry, a unique world of his own, manifests, through his tragic sense of the human life, a spiritual salvation characterized by a struggle against determinism, the absurd, loneliness, and suffering.

Novels of such a type aim to analyze the inner hesitation and bewilderment of intellectuals,their existential predicament and spiritual anguish,as well as their persistence in their pursuit of spiritual salvation amid predicaments.

His works, under the guidance of his religious belief, directly explores the significance of contemporary human existence, and the living conditions of the GRAY people, therefore, he becomes one of the few who firmly believe in the necessity of the healing of human spirits.

Modernist techniques are used not in "art for art s sake" but for "art in the artist s sake": William Faulkner aimed at articulating spiritual predicament of people in modern society.