As a female author, Zhao Mei has the propensity to write from a specifically feminist perspective and all the essays concerned with women’s issues. They encompass her commentaries on prominent women figures in Chinese history like Empress Wu Zetian, Princess Gao Yang and Shang guan Waner. Her reconstructions of the lives of talented women writers and actresses like Eileen Chang, Hu Die and RuanLingyu who lived during the era of the Republic of China, as well as her unique interpretations of the distinguished women writers in the West such as Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir and Marguerite Duras.