The Grand Emancipator Women’s Liberation and Mao Zedong
A famous Confucian, Cheng Yi, urged widows–but not widowers–to starve themselves to death rather than remarry. Yet Confucius, often regarded as “The Grand Emancipator,” neither denied women’s agency nor their need for spiritual development, insisting that everyone, regardless of gender, could improve through education and self-cultivation. Of all people, girls and servants are the most […]
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