Societal factors and the inescapability of Chinese female oppression

• Main Author: Wang, Carmen Onggo Jiawen
• Other Authors: Yong Wern Mei
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::Chinese
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45588
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper attempts to look at the problems that Chinese women from 1920s to 1950s China and Taiwan face in emancipating themselves because of the society that they live in. Ruled by Confucian ideals, they have to struggle with what they can have and what they actually desire. Unable to attain what...