Abstract：As one of the most noticeable trends of novel creation in 1990's, the new female novel has aroused much controversy. This thesis aims to clarify some misunderstandings towards the new female novel. It thinks, the new female novel, influenced by feminism and nourished by the cultural resources of post modernism, must have certain features of post modernism, but it cannot be considered equal to post modernism. It is still a kind of grand narration about "liberation" on the whole. The new female novel is a personal, critical and reflective writing of the intellectuals rather than a commercial writing. Within the cultural context of present China, the new female novel may be seen as a "post of post" humanist spirit construction, or a humanist concern expressed fom the female cultural standpoint and by the female mode of discourse.
