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Running head: GENDER & CHINESE SOCIETY
Gender & Chinese Society
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GENDER & CHINESE SOCIETY
Gender & Chinese Society
Chinese women reign in a low status, similarly to women in other cultures around the
world. This was due ideologies and philosophy of “filial piety” of Confucius. The ideology
suggested that women ought to submit to their spouses, and young in the society must respect
and obey the ruler and the elderly. For many years this ideology has helped in maintaining a
very patriarchal society, Acts of abuse against women, the sale of women were common.
Acts such as binding of women feet were done to shape their feet for them to be more
appealing to men which were a ritual that had been present since the tenth century. Following
the political dispensation that happened in 1949, the then leader of the people’s Republic of
China, Mao Zedong spear-headed the formation of new government, one whose objectives
led to the abolishment of the apparent dominant system which placed women into bondage
and le...