Abstract: Zhang Xin is a representative female novelist devoted to urban writing since the 1990s. She has created a series of professional female images in her works, most of whom struggle between traditional and modern gender ideologies. Zhang Xin's novels depict the dilemma faced by professional women due to their dual gender roles and reflect on the negative aspects of female love in traditional gender discourse. Some of the professional women in Zhang Xin's works possess the characteristics of "post feminists,” making it necessary to dialectically view their gender perspectives. As a woman writer, Zhang Xin sympathizes with and cares about the professional women in her works while expressing her call for the true and poetic world.

Key words: Zhang Xin, professional woman, gender dilemma, female care