ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author tries to reinscribe sexual politics into the reading of desire, to bring feminist strategies to bear on Su Tong's experimental texts. Because of the narrative problematization of the writing of history and the intense self-reflexivity in writers like Su Tong, the traditional feminist concern over "fiction and reality" appears to be foreclosed. The author describes the trajectory of the desire, the interplay between the fascination with eroticism and an equally strong fascination with history in experimental fiction: Desire in the form of eroticized history. In the "black trajectory of life," the apex is money, whereas the figure of Woman marks the rise and fall of the trajectory. The rupture between desire and revolution is acutely registered when Lu Fang reprimands Chen Mao's action by taking away his rifle, the symbol of power conferred by revolution.
