The Research Of Divorce Issue In The Early Republic Of China

This article focuses on the Ladies’ Journal during the Republic of China,and aims to study the divorce issues in the early Republic of China through the divorce articles published by it.The freedom of divorce is one of the important manifestations of the change of marriage concepts in modern China.Because the understanding and pursuit of marriage of intellectual youth is different from that of the old times,their divorce concepts have changed,which caused the divorce rate to gradually rise in the early Republic of China,although from an objective point of view,this One phenomenon is progressive,but during the transitional period of society,the phenomenon of free divorce can easily cause serious social problems.Intellectual youth abandoning old-fashioned wives,fraudulent marriages,and issues related to child rearing after divorce have all caused controversy in all sectors of society,making more people have to face up to free divorce and the problems caused by free divorce.Ladies’ Journal was founded in 1915 and ceased publication in 1931.During this period,it has been active in the public’s view by publishing and discussing woman’s issues extensively.In the past 17 years,Ladies’ Journal has published 204 issues,and it is a star magazine that publishes discussions on woman’s issues.Therefore,divorce issues related to woman’s emancipation and gender equality are also one of the key topics published in the Ladies’ Journal.This article mainly summarizes the divorce articles in the Ladies’ Journal to show the attitudes and opinions of all walks of life towards divorce at that time,and analyzes its reasons,in order to supplement the research on marriage issues in the early Republic of China.This article will explain the overall situation of Ladies’ Journal from its founding background,editor group,column setting,distribution situation,reader group,etc.At the same time,it will classify and analyze the divorce articles according to their content,and generally show Intellectuals’ overall views on divorce at that time;secondly,these different types of articles were the focus of investigation,sorting out the main problems that existed in divorce incidents at that time,and the different attitudes and opinions of the society on these problems;finally,according to various discussions,from To sum up the impact of these phenomena and discussions on society in two aspects,positive and negative.