Chinese Women in 19th Century The Chinese society is fused to Confucian ideals. In the 19th Century, the Chinese society was primarily a centralized political establishment founded on patriarchal ideals. In the ancient Chinese society, men and women were seriously oppressed by bureaucratic capitalism, feudalism and imperialism (Chan and Joseph 52). However, it is the Chinese women who were relegated to the lowest cadre of their society. This was because the Chinese social structure was founded on four basic pillars, clan authority, husband authority, divine authority and political authority. This paper seeks to discuss the way Chinese women in the […]