Die chinesische Frau zwischen Beruf und Familie. Stimmen aus der Literatur zum Thema Liebe und Ehe im heutigen China

Abstract

Based on a variety of Chinese material about love and marriage this article focuses on women's role in family and business. It deals with the specific problems women encounter in finding a way to combine two tasks, being wife and mother as well as working member of society. In traditional Chinese thinking the female is associated with weakness, passiveness and acting in the interior. Because of this evaluation genuine Chinese gender and women studies start only in the second half of our century, being influenced by Western, especially American standards. Their most prominent advocate is Li Xiaojiang, a scientist fighting for the extension of women studies embracing history, economy, politics, philosophy and psychology. Today the achievements of communism, liberation from the restricted role that women had, are again endangered by the drift of the Chinese economy to free entreprise.