In her article Queer Love in Woolf\u27s Orlando and Chu\u27s Notes of a Desolate Man Pei-Wen Clio Kao analyses Virginia Woolf and T\u27ien-Wen Chu\u27s novels in the context of gender studies. Kao\u27s reading of Orlando and Notes of a Desolate Man is an elaboration on homosexual sensibilities of both men and women based on the concept of écriture féminine in the context of patriarchy and the former\u27s power of subversion and change. Kao\u27s analysis results in the finding that while Woolf\u27s Orlando is more attuned to the feminist discourse based on an extended Western project in its period and movement to destabilize patriarchal ideology, Chu\u27s Desolate Man can be read as the positive force of self-examination and self-transformation empowered by feminist awareness and by concerns about (homo)sexual equality
