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China
- Program Title: From Confucius to Mao
- EASC Code: CF-10
- Series Title:
- Region/Country: China
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English
- Subject: Religion & Philosophy
- Program Type: Documentary
- Media Type:
- Director:
- Producer: Film for the Humanities and Sciences
- Release Date:
- Running Time: 54 min.
- Color or BW: Color
- Program Abstract: After illustrating how a combination of laws, customs, and Confucian philosophy had reduced Chinese women to chattels, this program examines in detail the turning points from the late-19th century through the mid-20 centuries that paved the way for a complete reversal in Chinese women's status. Remarkable vintage film and fasinating interviews with women whose lives have spanned the 20th-century provide evidence of and insights into the harmful practices of foot-binding, arranged marriages, and polygamy; the positive imapct of the dowager Empress, Sun Yat-sen, Mao Zedong, and China's first feminest, Qiu Jin; and the salutary effects of female education and Ibsen's A Doll's House.
- Data Entry Date:10/16/2003
