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The Study On The Female Daily Life And Female Consciousness In The Republic Of China

Posted on:2009-02-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M Q KangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245459523Subject:China's modern history
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As the fundamental behaviour of human being's propagation, daily life serves as the barometer of social change and the evolution of the times. In long feudal society, Confucian ethics and cultural predominated the world. The daily life of women was confined by the ethical rules, and their daily conducts were restricted severely. Women were completely deprived of their fundamental rights, in a state of unconsciousness. In modern times, the Western ideology affected the East little by little. In particular, it was after May 4 in 1919 that the wave of women's liberation was set off in China with the entry of the western doctrine of women. During this period, women's daily life was watched closely and an unprecedented revolution in daily life happened. Material and cultural changes triggered the mentality of cultural evolution, which was in the form of the awakening consciousness of urban female self-liberation and independence of equality, individual freedom, aesthetic orientation and so on. All this has provided an important ideological premise for women's enancipation, and reflected the light of modern civilization.Using the theory of sociology, folklore, psychology and other disciplines with the traditional methods of history, the topic will focus on the urban women's daily life in the Republic of China. Through research, it revealed the traces of women's consciousness in those time. At the same time, it will learn from history and sum up experiences, lessons to provide suggestions for women's living concept and value orientation nowdays. It also will improve the quality of life and well-being index, which will benefit the healthy social development.Based on the women's daily life in the Republic of China, the paper will conduct the research on women's consciousness from the espects ranging from food and clothing and living, to marriage and family, to leisure, etc.The paper is divided into six parts: the first part is the background of the awakening of awareness on women's consciousness. Articles are from the daily life of women's interpret of the traditional society, May 4 during the personal liberation of women's thought personality during May 4, women's consciousness awakening in daily life to display the female consciousness breeding, the history of initiation scene. The second part is on changing costumes highlight women's consciousness. Articles are from shear foot breaking free of the feudal yoke, apparel changes holding high sense of personality, apparel aesthetic closely following the trend of the times to analize, the main sense of the awakening of women. Part III is respectively on the change from food, accommodation, travel that reflected the awareness of women. Part IV is on a recreational changes in mapping out the female consciousness. Through the analysis on the participation of arts and entertainment, joining the sports and entertainment, the pursuit of bodybuilding, and other aspects of the leisure activities of women, it reflected the influances physics, spirit and mentality. Part V summed up the evolution of women's consciousness and bias errors, which are divided into extravagance and waste, extreme blind obedience, Xiaxie play three areas. Finally, the article give an overall analysis and reflection on urban women's consciousness evolution, and make an analysis of the impact of the awakening of women's consciousness. It also analizes the historical limitations of the awareness of women and the emancipation of women, focusing on the spiritual level.Women's liberation is an important content of China's revolution, In the great journey of the revolution, the outer layer of feudal yoke is often broken, while the chain of women is deeply rooted as the form of ideological fetters. Women's liberation is essentially the dialectical interaction between the main object. The final analysis is the thing of women own. Bebel said: "Women's future lies in the consciousness of women." Women's liberation is not really the external form of liberation, but to pray for the spiritual realm to improve the liberation, women's self-consciousness, the main sense of awakening. To fundamentally seek to women's liberation, we must save the soul, awaken the sleepy female consciousness, so that women aware of their status, values, mission and realize that they hold up half the sky a powerful force.
Keywords/Search Tags:the Republic of China, urban female, daily life, female consciousness
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