On December 13, the second lecture of Jiangsu Provincical "Women/Gender Studies Month" program in Nanjing Normal University -- "Calling for ‘Bisexual Vision’: An intertextual interpretation of Woolf's Orlando and A Room of One's Own" was held at Building No. 100 of Suiyuan Campus. Professor Yang Lixin, Ph.D. of Literature of Nanjing University and Doctoral Supervisor of School of Chinese Language and Literature of Nanjing Normal University, was invited as the lecturer. The lecture was attended by teachers and students from various departments and schools of NNU, including School of Chinese Language and Literature, Ginling College, School of Foreign Studies, and School of Education Science. Ms. Yang Di from Ginling College presided over the event.

Ms. Yang Lixin is specialized in the research of Chinese and foreign literary-cultural relations, British literature, and women's literature, etc. She has chaired the National Social Science Foundation projects "Research on the Relationship Between Virginia Woolf's Novel Aesthetics and Visual Arts", "Research on Chinese Cultural Elements in the Modernist Movement of the Bloomsbury Group" and "Research on The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs and Westward Transmission of Chinese Art Aesthetics", published 9 monographs, including On Western Feminist Literary Theory, Foreignization and Localization: The Evolution and Influence of Feminist Poetics in China, The Aesthetics and Visual Arts of Woolf's Novels, A Study on the Relationship Between Modernism and Chinese Culture in the Bloomsbury Group, and six translated works, including Mad Women in the Attic: Women Writers and Nineteenth-century Literary Imagination. 

In the lecture Professor Yang analyzed the intertextual phenomenon of androgymy that underlies Woolf’s Orlando and A Room of One's Own. In the former novel, after changing from male to female, the protagonist Orlando was deprived of the privilege of being a male and began to rethink the possible gender injustice in cultural, conventional and legal dimensions, thus demonstrating a bisexual vision. In A Room of One's Own, a collection of her essays, Woolf reflected on the injustices female writers would face and proposed that being androgynous is the most perferable state for writing. In this way the two works echo with each other. Professor Yang Lixin summarized the similarities between the two books with the words of Hermie Lee in A Biography of Woolf, and revealed to us the difficult situation of female writers and how to achieve self-liberation through literary creation.

At the end of the lecture, Professor Yang played the film clip of Orlando to help the audience understand the "bisexual vision" of the novel in a visual manner, and generated heated discussions. Many participants commented that the lecture not only expanded their horizons in gender studies within their own fields, but also increased their interest in literature and text analysis.