Political Change And Identity

In modern age of China, the new "as an understanding wife and loving mother" concept with the women’s liberation movement appeared. It has become an important problem of modem people as a different concept from the traditional virtue. For the study of modem "as an understanding wife and loving mother" concept, the academic circles have accumulated some achievements. But the most concern about the modern1an understanding wife and loving mother" concept development process itself and the debate of it, few academic researches care the women’s voices. In this paper, the modern intellectual women "as an understanding wife and loving mother" view will be a starting point. By the time sequence it is mainly divided into four chapters to discuss how the modern nationalism tide and the political change influence the female identity.The first chapter discusses that in the late Qing Dynasty, when the modern significance "as an understanding wife and loving mother" concept was put forward and the support from the awakening women on this idea and identity. During the reform period, with the "national salvation" era mission, reformers proposed to create a new women’s education philosophy "as an understanding wife and loving mother" for a more powerful people. As the first awakened intellectual women, with their own knowledge system, they consciously spread the new" an understanding wife and loving mother" concept and even became the first practitioners.The second chapter discusses before and after XinHai revolution, with the promotion of the revolutionary movement and women’s Liberation ideological trend, some elite women were no longer satisfied with the traditional role, they walked out the door for duty and rights.Radical women, represented by Qiu Jin, went out of the house to join the revolution, not as an understanding wife and loving mother but as a female hero. The famous doctor Zhang Zhujun in the premise of not avoiding the feminine gender role, advocated that women should be self-relianed and should not be confined to the family. With the revolutionary victory, facing redivision of political rights, gender conflict broke about gender discourse. The men said the duty of women was in the family and they shouldn’t have the political rights.In this regard, advanced intellectual women should debate. They emphasized the women who participate in political activities will not affect the family life and fight for women’s political rights.The third chapter discusses that after the Xin Hai revolution, with the influence of the Beiyang Government retro counter trend, the concept" as an understanding wife and loving mother" once again became the moral paragon of women. In this context. the advanced women who had been awakened, chose another path, which means to save the country by changing their family.The fourth chapter discusses that the modern intellectual women, influenced by the traditional and Western nationalism, their female identity cognition about" an understanding wife and loving mother" was complex. Even in the revolutionary era,it was not entirely agreed or disagreed. Because of its class limitation, their female identity was difficult to fully represent all the female.Modern intellectual women’s understanding about an understanding wife and loving mother" reflected that their female identity were affected by political change, the male discourse and the awakening of women. In the era of political change, the women’s cognition of female identity was particularly complex and difficult.