The early process of Chinese women's awakening to the new tide of modern idea is surveyed here. Chinese women have been living through the history of every period, never participating in the leading role but ever subordinated under the system of givin...
The early process of Chinese women's awakening to the new tide of modern idea is surveyed here. Chinese women have been living through the history of every period, never participating in the leading role but ever subordinated under the system of giving the precedence on the father's side.
In reality, the early movement for modernization of chinese women was never an independent movement as a women's affair. It was developed side by side with the Chinese modernization movement repeating its dissolution and reorganization in the broad and complicated form. But the unique problem of the chinese women's affair was the fact that it was more restricted by the tradition than any other features in the modern ,chinese society.
The Opium War was the beginning of the march of European great powers on China. After that war, the movement for modernizing Chinese was proceeded in concrete form. In the process of this great movement every factor of modernizing women held up its head as a social problem or as a human relations problem.
This paper classifies the observation of these matters into three courses; first to observe the position of women at home and in society, second to observe the participation of women in the new education, and third to observe the representative women movement in the period of political renovation, around the period of Sin-Hae (辛亥) Revolution, and around the period of (五·四) movement, and its idea.
In short, Chinese women's movement started from the new education. Next the leaders educated by this new education, developing the women's movement, were supported by the men was cooperated.