Many scholars used to date the radical decrease of Chinese women’s status from the period between the Tang and Song dynasties. They tended to believe that the argument of the Neo-confucianists of the Northern and Sou...Many scholars used to date the radical decrease of Chinese women’s status from the period between the Tang and Song dynasties. They tended to believe that the argument of the Neo-confucianists of the Northern and Southern Song dynasties that loss of chastity for women was more serious than starvation to death-an argument amounting to deprivation of women’s human rights-had became an ideological trend dominating public morals of the time. These scholars, according to the author, were wrong in that they ignored the fact that the social customs and culture in the Song Dynasty were more tolerant and diversified than in the Tang Dynasty-as evidenced by the government’s tolerance of women’s remarriage even in the last years of the Song Dynasty.展开更多
文摘Many scholars used to date the radical decrease of Chinese women’s status from the period between the Tang and Song dynasties. They tended to believe that the argument of the Neo-confucianists of the Northern and Southern Song dynasties that loss of chastity for women was more serious than starvation to death-an argument amounting to deprivation of women’s human rights-had became an ideological trend dominating public morals of the time. These scholars, according to the author, were wrong in that they ignored the fact that the social customs and culture in the Song Dynasty were more tolerant and diversified than in the Tang Dynasty-as evidenced by the government’s tolerance of women’s remarriage even in the last years of the Song Dynasty.
