The Role Of Communism In The Confucian Patriarchal Family

While it seems intuitive that the most democratic institutions of the world would be most

There is no denying that the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party under Chairman Mao Zedong changed the course of the history of China and shaped the China the world sees today. The amount of lives, cultural traditions, and differing intellectual thoughts that were lost and destroyed as he strove to meet his goals for the country can never be recovered or replaced. However, it had been asserted that one of the more positive effects of Chairman Mao on the people of China was his somewhat radical opinion of woman. Prior to the Communist Revolution, women’s role in Chinese society was almost completely limited to life within the home and focused on supporting their family and being submissive to their fathers and husbands. Chairman Mao

The study of Confucianism depends on distant family individuals to coordinate during the time spent growing crops, which enormously see the traditional Chinese family as a significant consider the group. Traditionally the Chinese family incorporates, parents, children, grandparents and close relative and everybody who is identified with that family. As the population of China develops and grow the government pass a law which is the "One Child Policy" in the 1970s which has changed the structure of the traditional Chinese family. The present Chinese family only include father, mother and the children. The reason of this is was to control both economic elements and population growth. The traditional Chinese culture women were very unassuming.

The family structure has traditionally been the basic unit of Chinese society, where women have long been given the task of the continuation of the society 's core values, in their roles as wives and mothers. While the expected values have evolved with time, from the imperial period to the Communist revolution to the modern day, this responsibility for women has

Women’s role in Ancient Chinese civilisation was always vital to society due to their role in the family and during the Tang and Song dynasty significant changes occurred, changing Chinese women’s lives forever. While it is no secret women were inferior to men in the history of China, not many are aware of the major differences of the status of women from dynasty to dynasty. The Tang-Song dynasties ruled from 618AD to 1279 AD and many distinct differences between these two dynasties can be observed. Women’s role in these dynasties primarily included domestic duties, with the introduction of new roles to the female gender. Their role was very important to society as the woman of the family ran the household and as that was the most important

Identifying can be regarded more significant for the people in the minority or vulnerable groups in our society. However, the mainstream culture and politics in my country China hardly take account of them. This culture and the society sets men, native and heterosexuality as the ideal condition. Although China experiences the fastest economy and modernization in recently decades, the traditional cultures and structures root in the people’s minds without threat. Based on my own personal experience, the existing dominant lifestyle in China can hardly be challenged in terms of alternative sexual lifestyles or other related factors.

The purpose of this study is to answer the question: To what extent did Chinese leaders display their power through the controlling of sex in the Chinese Cultural Revolution? This can give historians a better understanding of the extent to which the Chinese leaders controlled every aspect of the Chinese people's life. This is a fairly new subject because, as I will discuss later in the project, sex was silenced in the Cultural Revolution.

As China faced new international pressures and the change to a communist society, gender relations transformed women from servants of men to full independent workers, who finally became soldiers of the communist state. In Jung Chang’s novel, Wild Swans, the three women – grandmother Yu-Fang, mother Bao-Qin and daughter Jung Chang – exemplify the expected gender roles of each generation. I will argue that Confucian society presented few economic opportunities for women to support

With the goal of equality, Mao Zedong led a communist movement which aimed to reform education and social norms, with a strong focus on the lower-class, as it was believed that “without the poor peasants there [could] be no revolution”. In theory, this political reform would have revolutionized China and provided every citizen with the resources needed to sustain a modest lifestyle, although corruption and greed inevitably inhibited its complete success. The Communist Revolution in China during the mid-20th century supported the development of women’s rights that would have been rejected by former government systems. This was established through laws and reforms that promoted equality regarding family structure, education, and labor. Despite these strides of progress, patriarchal ideals of the past were still present, and women were still mostly excluded from political leadership and expected to take domestic

In conclusion, it was always unfair to the females in one way or another and the males always benefit in a Chinese family as they think that only a male can do the family proud.

When Mao Zedong, also translated as Mao Tse-tung and by the people, referred to as Chairman Mao, came to power in 1949[1], Mao's policy of Marxism was pleasing to the Chinese Communism Party, however it was contradictory to the instruction of Confucianism. Mao's work towards liberation and his struggle against Confucius' innate social system changed the way that China's freedom-hungry women were seen through the eyes of traditional Confucius followers in society. The downsizing of the weak economy and ineffective government system often envelopes an entire country's dynamic; though the economic side is naturally distorted, often the cultural and societal behavior follow close behind. While Confucius taught of structured places in society for every person, peasant and aristocrats[2], Mao tried to take steps towards liberty for all just as other countries around him had strongly exemplified. Confucius made women out to be such horrible creatures, only good for cooking, cleaning, and bearing children as some societies then believed however, Mao tried to increase the female population's freedom and equality in society in comparison to that of men. Mao's policy of Marxism was vastly different than Confucian teachings in that it supported women more and disregarded the class system. Although women in Mao's China did not achieve full political participation, in his policies, he aimed to overturn the Confucian social hierarchy and give woman equal opportunities in education and

“Over the last four decades, as China has transitioned from a socialist centralized economy to a productivity-and-efficiency-oriented market economy, so too have the country’s public and private spheres becoming increasingly differentiated.” For many generations, Chinese women have been seen as subordinate and inferior to that of a man. The Chinese workplace has always suffered from inequality, specifically gender inequality. Gender wage gaps and many other kinds of inequality in the workplace are affecting women in China but also all over the world. Women in China are not provided an equal opportunity because of their gender. Women have been thought to be underqualified or less qualified than that of a male co-worker doing the same job, and as a result are paid less, treated unequally, or not even offered a job. Long hours are required by the highest paid occupation making it hard for the females to take on household and family duties. Women feel discriminated against which affects their decisions for an occupation and career because of how society has portrayed them, thus making it hard for women to succeed. Dating back to over 200 years ago women have been extremely challenged by inequality in the workforce in China. “Up until the 1980’s China thought of gender inequality as one of their key most important principals in their society. “ Women in the Chinese work place dating back to before the 1950’s was and still are, underpaid, thought to be less educated, and are not

Over the last four decades, as China has transitioned from a socialist centralized economy to a productivity-and-efficiency-oriented market economy, so too have the country’s public and private spheres becoming increasingly differentiated. For many generations, Chinese women have been seen as subordinate and inferior to that of a man. The Chinese workplace has always suffered from inequality, specifically gender inequality. Gender wage gaps and many other kinds of inequality in the workplace are affecting women in China but also all over the world. Women in China are not provided an equal opportunity because of their gender. Women have been thought to be underqualified or less qualified than that of a male co-worker doing the same job, and as a result are paid less, treated unequally, or not even offered a job. Long hours are required by the highest paid occupation making it hard for the females to take on household and family duties. Women feel discriminated against which affects their decisions for an occupation and career because of how society has portrayed them, thus making it hard for women to succeed. Dating back to over 200 years ago women have been extremely challenged by inequality in the workforce in China. Up until the 1980’s China thought of gender inequality as one of their key most important principals in their society. Women in the Chinese work place dating back to before the 1950’s was and still are, underpaid, thought to be less educated, and are not able

“Lack of ability and talent in women is a virtue” is a main platitude of social standard for women in ancient China. For woman, virtue is the most important goal in woman’s live. However, to be virtuous, she has to be lack of ability and talent. Women have to obey the unfair rules and follow the moral values set by the patriarchal society. In China’s traditional culture, women have to be faithful to their husbands, and even stay chastity after their death. Girls were taught to be subservient to their men. They were not allowed to be “talent” and educated as men. A woman was born to be a role of passive dependence and destined to live under the male. They lived in a lower position than man. Females were only attachment to males. There was a clear line drawn by traditional value that separates male and female. Male dominated the society and female could only achieve success by serving her husband. Many women in China conform this uneven doctrine without any doubt. However, not all Chinese women were willing to be appendages of males. There had always been voices that against the mainstream Chinese moral standards of female. Instead of trapped by traditional social norms, some Chinese women have their own dreams as independent individuals, fight for their own freedom and their own rights, and achieve their self-value in the world as the men do.

To begin with, Gender inequality in China could be traced way back to when emperors once ruled the nation. Chinese society was a patriarchal society with strict rules of conduct for women. According to the Confucianism idea of ‘’three obedience and four virtues’’, women should obey their father before marriage, the husband after marriage and their son in widowhood. Confucianism ideas about inferiority of women deeply influenced the Chinese society and culture, leading to women being placed at the bottom of the power and gender hierarchy.