The Chinese revolution's spectre emerged from the chaotic period of decades after the British Opium War in 1840 and the subsequent imperialist invasion. For the Chinese, the necessity of "becoming a modern person" stems from the state of emergency. Then came the 1911 Revolution. This signifies the material conditions of Chinese society and the vision of the critical imagination of these women. The beginning of the century marked a period of growing unrest for women as the feminist movement took hold. Women of this period were faced with the dilemma of protesting oppressive ideals stemming from Confucian ideology or remaining loyal to their family and maintaining peace and order. This social movement positively influenced literary discourse at the time. Women writers of the time authored works reflecting the feminist sentiment and the issues that came with the revolution. Eileen Chang, Lu Yin, Shi Pingmei and Ding Ling were four of the most influential feminist writers. In the 1920s and 1930s, Freudian psychoanalysis gained favour with Chinese feminists looking to study gender relationships, thus becoming a topic of many feminist writers throughout the early and mid portions of the 20th century.