Su Qing, a Chinese woman rising to fame as a female writer from the fallen city of Shanghai in the 1940s, wrote in simple, direct and realistic writing style of how Chinese women suffered in marriage and how many wandered hopelessly due to the devastation of war. However, her literary success was short-lived, amid criticism of her as a cultural traitor. It was not until the 1990s that she was recognized as an important figure in modern Chinese literature. This paper explores the struggles of Su Qing as a female writer working in the context of male chauvinism and nationalism in Japanese-ruled Shanghai, based on her autobiographical work, 10 Years of Marriage. Throughout the Chinese Women's Movement, which progressed from its initial insirpation of the runaway Nora, as depicted in Ibsen's A Doll's House, to its eventual celebration of a wise wife and good mother, Su struggled to survive and pursue her career as a divorced single mother. This paper also analyzes Su as a purported cultural traitor, which she was accused of being during the post-war period, which is an intriguing issue in terms of gender and politics.