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Article depicted woman’s difficulties in maintaining her life as well as her aggressiveness in the patrilineal society in Chinese feudal time. Article analyzed Song Lian’s bad fate. She was the main character of qi qie chenqun novel, written by Su Tong. Article analysis consisted of three parts. The first part described Song Lian’s background of life and her becoming a mistress. The second part indicated Song Lian’s attacking behavior to other woman because of defending her life. His third part analyzed some causes that made Song Lian did not survive in life. It can be concluded that the fact, Song Lian is able to be survive but she decides to be a mistress caused by both personal and o social reasons. Song Lian’s attacking other woman is caused by her anger representing her unsuccessful life. Principally, Song Lian’s failure in the feudal life is caused by her unsuccessful in becoming a respected woman. If she had been a respected woman, she would have also competed with other women in achieving a better life.

Article explored to what extent students from the Chinese Department, Bina Nusantara University, were able to comprehend Mandarin language through “Home wih Kids” film. Qualitative method was applied by doing observation in class using prepared learning materials got from the film. There were 27 respondents coming from two classes. They were students from semester 1 who took Listening class. The writter also applied observation approach by distributing questionaires to students to know their comprehension of the film content. It can be concluded that students tend to be more enthusiastic in learning Chinese language by using film, and they are able to do the questions and retelling the plot of the film. This evidences prove that the influence of film gives more advantages to develop Chinese language proficiency of the Chinese department students, Bina Nusantara University.

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Article discusses the psychological aspect of the main character in the novel “Chen Lun”. The feelings of inferiority and loneliness are his initial mental states. The latter is caused by two factors: the social and personality factors while the former is caused by the political condition in China at that time and the fact that the Japanese underestimate the Chinese people. The writer uses Freud’s theory on the structure of personality and conflict, anxiety, and the defense mechanism to analyze the process of the psychological development of the main character. In the end of the story, the main character commits suicide since “he” cannot only solve the problem of his loneliness and inferiority but also he feels guilty of his wrongdoing which crushes his-ideal-self. The guilty feeling haunts him in such a way that he even denies himself.