Yuan (philosophy, Texas State U.) identifies four models of sex equality available to Chinese women in order to improve their status the traditional Confucian view, the liberal feminist formal view, M
Confucian traditions have ingrained gender stratifications in Chinese culture today. Yuan proposes re-reading early Confucian texts as a vision of Ren with Dao with the unity of heaven, earth, and hum
According to the author, the subordination of Chinese women continued under different models of sex equality in China in the twentieth century. InReconceiving Women's Equality in China Lijun Yuan disc
