Abstract: As literary muses in occupied Shanghai in the 1940s, Su Qing and Yang Jiang aimed at writing about love and women’s married life far from politics and the war-torn world. By making an in-depth explanation of the causes underlying Su Qing's incomplete feminism and Yang Jiang's thorough feminism through comparing Su Qing's novel Ten Years of Marriage and Yang Jiang's play Feng Xu, this paper comes to the conclusion that Su Qing’s halfway female consciousness is due to the contradiction between the writer’s personal modernity and the feudal traditional family as well as her compromise of a single mother’s economic burden while Yang Jiang’s complete female consciousness comes from the insistence of the elite intellectuals under the influence of the new liberal family education, the Western idea of individualism and subjectivity, and influence of the Beijing School culture.

Key words: Ten Years of Marriage, Feng Xu, literature of the Japanese-occupied Shanghai, feminism