Exercise 4: Changing Images on Chinese Women in the Twentieth
Century
1) Through Chinese Women’s Eyes (by Mayfair Yang) HQ1767.
T47.1997 (the first 12 minutes)
Please pay attention to women’s roles under Mao’s China in Mayfair
Yang’s tape. Was gender difference between men and women
emphasized in Mao’s China?
2) Women Being (by Wen-jie Qin) HQ 1767.W56.1995 (the first 8
minutes)
Please pay attention to the changing images on Chinese women after the
reform era in Wen-jie Qin’s tape. Was gender difference between men
and women emphasized here?
Open questions:
Can we achieve gender equality by erasing gender differences?
Why did feminine become an important issue after the economic reform?
Was it because “beauty” became a market asset?
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