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The Treatment of Women in China, 2002.
An examination of the history of unequal treatment towards Chinese women as compared to the treatment of women in the "western" world.
2,571 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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This research paper looks at the continued oppression of Chinese women throughout the culture's history. It refers specifically to the ancient times of the dynasties and looks at the traditions and practices on which this culture was based in an attempt to understand their treatment and attitude towards their female population. It looks at how this image developed over time and how finally with the emergence of Communism, relative equality was granted to women.
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"It is difficult for Westerners to understand China. While there are always analogies to be drawn between different civilizations, Europe has few parallels to Chinese history. The unbroken continuity of culture, the unique socio-political structures, and the amazing revolutionary experiment of the 20th century set the Chinese into a category by themselves, especially from the Western perspective.
While our Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian, scientific-industrial, imperialist-capitalist heritage has transformed the entire world, we have nothing resembling Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, or communism. Our nuclear families and weak kinship contrasts with their extended families and clans, while their collectivism and our individualism are polar opposites. Western women have only recently emancipated themselves from the yoke of male domination and achieved equality, yet nothing in the long history of sexism can compare with the oppression of Chinese women, unless it be the Indian civilization from which some of its worst features were derived. "Few societies in history have prescribed for women a more lowly status, or treated them in a more routinely brutal way, than traditional Confucian China" (Johnson, 1983, 1)."
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Women's Rights in China and the U.S., 2001.
The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss and analyze the rights of women in China and the United States.
1,100 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 6 sources, $ 38.95
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This paper compares the level of women?s rights in the two countries. It compares historical voting rights, political power, positions in legislative systems, domestic violence, infanticide and the one child policy. There is also an account of Chinese women?s prison. Includes many numerical comparison and discusses cloaking of actual figures by government agencies.
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"The "China Daily," discusses women's rights in China in a positive manner, bringing up several points that show women in China have no fewer rights than women in the United States. Unfortunately, there are many topics that were not discussed in this paper, that prove women in China still have a long road ahead of them in achieving true equal rights.
The article says that women of China did not have to wait 144 years after the forming of a constitution to vote. "American women belatedly obtained equal voting rights 144 years after the founding of the United States, while Chinese women were grated such rights immediately after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949" (Editors, 1995)."
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Women In China, 2003.
Examines historical oppressive treatment of women.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 6 sources, $ 95.95
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Examines the lowly status and brutal treatment of women in Confucian China, economic, legal and sociological discrimination, the basis of Confucian philosophy of women, the spread of misogynistic doctrines, and foot binding.
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"It is difficult for Westerners to understand China. While there are always analogies to be drawn between different civilizations, Europe has few parallels to Chinese history. The unbroken continuity of culture, the unique socio-political structures, and ..."
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Women in China and America, 2002.
Uses Jung Chang's work, "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China" to compare the position of women in China and America in the twentieth century.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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The political upheaval that occurred during China during the past hundred years is described in the first- hand accounts presented in Jung Chang's work, "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China". This book demonstrates that the rights provided to the women described during this period by the government were constantly limiting, where on the other side of the globe the women in the United States were privileged to have ever- increasing rights and liberties. This paper explores the book "Wild Swans" in respect to the rights that were given to women in China and compares and contrasts these rights to those of American women during the same time period.
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Modern Women Writers of China, 2005.
Examines contemporary women writers in China.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 0 sources, $ 44.95
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"This paper discusses modern women writers of China. It focuses on specific works of several modern women writers and discusses how their writing reflects their new found freedoms in China. Additionally, it discusses how these women all feel a pull from the past that they cannot ignore, and how difficult that pull is when they are considering the possibilities of their future.
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"Can Xue is a woman of China who has seen the evolution of a society in transition throughout her life. She is further a writer who is considered one of the first Chinese women of literature to be recognized by the government as a literary artist. Can Xue has written several stories in which she discusses the elements of her life as a youth, and her current existence. The Summons is one such story. In her work she recognizes both the harshness of a Communist government that has been her past, and the position of women in China that has evolved during her lifetime. Thought of as a writer who relies on no conventional form to create her works, Can Xue is often depicted as an irrational writer whose work is full of vivid and wild images."
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Women in Modern China, 2005.
This paper examines literature about women in modern China.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper explains that "Stones of the Jingwei Bird" and "New Year Sacrifice" offer fascinating insights into the lives of women in modern China. The author points out that the "In the Wine Shop" and "Xiaoxiao" explore different aspects of gender in China from a wider cultural perspective. The paper relates that "Once upon a Time" and "The Night of the Mid-Autumn Festival" complemented these first four works by expanding the thematic discussion of gender and presenting characters faced with different challenges.
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"In discussing the works we read for class and examining their meaning, it should be noted that "Excerpts from Stones of the Jingwei Bird" and "New Year's Sacrifice" offered fascinating insights into the lives of women in modern China, while "In the Wine Shop" and "Xiaoxiao" explored different aspects of gender in China from a wider cultural perspective. "Once Upon a Time" and "The Night of the Mid-Autumn Festival" complemented these first four works by expanding the thematic discussion of gender and presenting characters faced with different challenges."
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Women in China, 2005.
This paper analyzes how literary characters of imperial China find sensual/spiritual fulfillment.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, $ 71.95
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The paper examines the degree to which a range of literature characters in "The Dream of the Red Chamber" manage to find fulfillment in terms of spirituality or sensuality. The paper also provides Spence's account of women. The paper makes a reference to more recent treatments of women in China, as per feminist studies, in contrast with what these works show us that is not always apparent in Ching culture.
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"There is a tendency in the West to view Chinese women as continually oppressed by their society, never able to find self-fulfillment in a civilization that did not value them highly, or provide them with many choices. However, in examining a variety of literature, one finds that this was not always the case. There was considerable room for women to find self-expression and self-development, within the confines of the surrounding society. The works below also indicate a change in society in the 18th century, the Ching dynasty's reform taking effect but one sees, in most interesting ways, the pull of the past, too."
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Women in China, 2002.
A look at the traditional ancient Chinese attitude towards women though a literature review.
1,486 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper examines three different stories written over a thousand years ago when women in China were without power. It looks at how traditional ancient Chinese writers reveal that although women had little sanctioned power, their innate wisdom gave them dominance over the men around them. It demonstrates, with quoted examples, how male Chinese writers from those ancient times frequently portrayed women as possessing control over men through the power of their natural wisdom.
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"Another incidence of female superiority, this time in Chinese literature from the ninth century, is found in ?The Biography of a Girl Surnamed Chao,? by P?i Jih-hsiu. This young girl, testified in court to save the life of her father who had been convicted of a crime against the government and sentenced to die. She offered to die with her father, and through her ?filial devotion? saved her father?s life. She then vowed to shave her hair and become a Buddhist in order to repay the judge for his decision, and immediately ?Concerned that others might not believe the words of a girl, she took out a stiletto that she carried in her bosom and forthwith cut off her ear to demonstrate that she would certainly keep her oath.? "
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Women in China, 2002.
A review of "Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China" by Dorothy Ko.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 1 source, $ 71.95
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This is a critical analysis of Dorothy Ko's "Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China". Dorothy Ko's Teachers of the Inner Chambers can be seen as a work of historical "revisionism" that attempts to revise the popularly held beliefs about the "oppression" of women in pre-20th century China.
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Modern Women of China, 2005.
Examines the work of contemporary female writers in China.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 0 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses the works of modern Chinese female writers. It focuses on the works on one writer in particular, Can Xue, and discusses her role in Chinese literature. It further discusses the works of several other authors and how their work reflects their roles of women in 20th Century China. The paper discusses the struggles of Chinese women as they have a new found freedom of expression and how they are using that expression through literature to make a statement about society.
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"The Chinese female writer, Can Xue, is a symbol of the modern world of many Chinese women. Can Xue struggled in her earlier years to have a voice in literature. When she did obtain a reading public she was cited as being "insane" in her writing (Lu 175). This was due to the fact that Can Xue was not afraid to express emotions through her work, or to express her personal viewpoints that were outside of the male oriented forms of the Confucian tradition in China (Lu 175). Tonglin Lu writes, "...A woman's experiment with language amounts to an attempt to master this exclusively masculine property...perceived from a masculine point of view...is in itself maddening not necessarily to the female intruder but for the newly established male order..." (Lu 175)."
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Gender Roles For Women In China, 1999.
Ethnographic overview of women's social, marital, family and ceremonial roles and how they are affected by urban or rural location, age and historical era.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, $ 55.95
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One of the problems in the social sciences is that people look to the social sciences for the same kinds of answers about people that physical sciences provide about atoms or chemicals. This does not take into account the fact that human beings are affected by an incredible diversity of family, cultural, and other environmental influences that impact their behavior.
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"Gender Roles and Chinese Women
Introduction
One of the problems in the social sciences is that people look to the social sciences for the same kinds of answers about people that physical sciences provide about atoms or chemicals. This does not take into account the fact that human beings are affected by an incredible diversity of family, cultural, and other environmental influences that impact their behavior. Even in one society, people live in different regions, belong to different classes, and operate under unique value systems. Still, there may be some generalities that are possible. The intent in this paper is to explore gender roles for women in China, making the argument that those roles have some general ..."
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Selling Women in Traditional China, 2002.
A reading of the female point of view in Yu Xuan-ji's poem a"Selling Tattered Peonies".
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, $ 53.95
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This essay will examine the poem "Selling Tattered Peonies" by Yu Xuan-ji. As will be seen, the poem does not appear different from poems written by men in terms of structure. However, the choice of language and images represent womanhood in traditional Chinese identification. Moreover, the social situation that the poem represents is particularly that of a woman. Thus, the poem "Selling Tattered Peonies" reflects a woman's point of view as defined by the society of Yu Xuan-ji's time. Unfortunately, it may also be said that it reflects a woman's point of view as defined by our modern society as well.
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Immigrant Women in Canada, 2002.
Discusses the experiences of women who immigrated from China and Hong Kong to Canada.
1,911 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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Several eminent authors have composed various masterpieces or performed intensive research on the bittersweet experiences, as well as the treatment of immigrant women in Canada. This paper discusses a particular group - the Chinese and the Hong Kong women who settled in Canada. Firstly, this paper provides an account of the progress of the immigration policies in Canada since its origin until today and its effects on the entryway of Chinese immigrant women in Canada. The paper then presents the effect of standardized policies regarding race and sex on Chinese immigrant women. Lastly, this report looks into the institutional processes, including employment and unemployment as well as the organizational processes including the relationships between family members, child care, household chores and social life which affected the lives of skilled Chinese women who migrated from China and Hong Kong and are settled in Canada.
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"Such processes are the cause of ?social injustice? (Racism, sexism, and experience of Chinese Immigrant) within a society. Following is the account of effects of institutionalized processes in employment that is based on two surveys including married women immigrants from Hong Kong as well as China. These two studies show that most women moved to Canada with their husbands under the independent class or as business immigrants (Racism, sexism, and experience of Chinese Immigrant). These women worked back home on the basis of their individual degrees and were considered highly skilled workers but when they moved to Canada, they were not eligible for the Canadian experience requirement and as a result they were unable to work. Some of the women, who did manage to seek employment, were either underpaid or were rejected. The Canadian women irrespective of their qualifications were given preference over the Chinese immigrant women."
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Equality in Japan and China, 2008.
This paper discusses the influence of western civilization on the social status of women in Japan and China.
2,786 words (approx. 11.1 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 83.95
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In this article, the writer notes that the role of women in Japan and China has undergone a significant change due to the profound influence of Western culture in these Asian countries. This paper examines the history of the social status of both Japanese and Chinese women, and looks at how that status has changed and evolved over the years as the West has imposed its values on both countries' citizens. The writer argues that Japanese and Chinese women have experienced both positive and negative outcomes in social equality due to the impact of Western civilization on these two Eastern powers, however, the positives far outweigh the negatives.
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Introduction
Japanese Women prior to World War II
Post World War II Japanese Women
Chinese women and their status after the influence of Western culture
The Social Equality of Japanese and Chinese Women
Negative social outcomes due to Western influence
Japan
China
Refuting the Negative Social Outcomes Due to Western Influence
Conclusion
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"Overall, women in Japan and China today experience much more social equality than their mothers and grandmothers ever did. Each great Eastern power was under the influence of Confucius and the old customs that made women subservient to their husbands, and even to their eldest sons.
"Since Western standards of gender equality have encroached the East, women in both Japan and China have had a much greater opportunity for education. This is evident in the sharply increased female enrollment at the university level in both powers."
"The glass ceiling for women not only exists for women in Japan and China, but also is still an issue in the United States. Nonetheless, there are increased opportunities within the work place due to higher academic achievement among Japanese and Chinese women. Women are now in government offices in both powers and greater opportunities will no doubt abound in time."
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Women's Role in Chinese Life, 2001.
This paper explores the growing societal changes that have taken place in the lives of women in China's long history.
2,840 words (approx. 11.4 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 84.95
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This paper examines the history of women's roles and rights throughout China's history, and the philosophical underpinnings of these roles in Confucianism and traditional Chinese belief. The author examines the changes in women's lives since the Chinese Revolution.
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"Today, Chinese women have entered society, without necessarily walking out of the family, and so they are given more than one role in life. China is both an old country and a new country, and its expectations of women reflect that duality. For nearly 3,000 years, China was a feudal society. A new China emerged only after the establishment of the People?s Republic of China, in 1949. And the country's modernization has continued in the last 15 years with the institution of economic reform and a policy of interaction with the outside world. In traditional China, marriage was the defining event of a female?s life, shifting her space, affiliation and responsibility from her parents' family to her husband's. There is a common saying in China: "men tend the outside and women the inside" (nan zhu wai n? zhu nei). A woman?s social role was confined to the family. Her major obligation was caring for her husband, in-laws and children."
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