The Golden Cangue was written by Eileen Chang in 1943.It describes a woman called Cao Qiqiao’s life,she was born in a small businessman’s family.She had been tortured for 30 years,and under the oppression of desire formed her pathological character,which ruined her children’s happiness.She married a disabled man called Zhong Ze,but she did not love him,she loved his brother Ji Ze.She wanted love but can’t love.It made her lived like a madman.Later,under the wealth desire and sexual oppression,her personality became distorted,her behavior turned soured.Then she destroyed her son’s marriage,leaded her daughter-in-law tortured to die,also she broke up her daughter’s love.

In this book,Eileen Chang showed the basic connotation of modern social gender psychology.In Eileen Chang’s age,her work didn’t has any avant-garde ideas,but it still showed us the veil of the sexual world.Eileen Chang thought Cao Qiqiao was the only “hero”in her novel world.Cao Qiqiao had a madman’s prudence and wit,in order to revenge the society which hurt her,she used the most morbid way.