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Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the literary criticism of the "Seventeen Years" has recoded "gender discourse" under the disciplines of socialist aesthetics. By interpreting and constructing the identities of the "females" and the "soldiers as workers and peasants," by setting boundaries to the stories of marriage and love or incorporating these stories into the grand narrative, and by passing "gender - inverted" political judgment on the females who are involved in public activities, the literary criticism of the "Seventeen Years" shapes a "clean" and pure female image that may have the function to purify one's morality and possess the quality of a spiritual authority. However, in socialist literature, gender hierarchy does not disappear because of the advent of the belief in the annihilation of gender difference. Instead, it has become a new force to weaken female consciousness and female subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]