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period. With the
victory of the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, Marxism
was introduced to China, which raised public awareness of
women's issues. Women's emancipation became an important part
in the revolution against feudal ideology. In 1919, the May
4th Movement against imperialism and feudalism was launched.
With female students as the vanguard, women intellectuals
and workers devoted themselves to the patriotic movement against
imperialism. Spurred by the social movement, women's emancipation
entered a new stage. The direct result was the opportunity
for women and men to have open social intercourse and for
universities to accept women. Men and women would be able
to receive education in the same schools and calls for independent
marriage were heard and acted upon.
Progressive
women intellectuals began to be affected by Marxism's theories
on women's emancipation after they were influenced by democratic
ideas. They began to look for the correct way to emancipate
the women of China. The growth of women workers of modern
times changed the nature of Chinese women. A group of women
chose the revolutionary road to liberate the Chinese motherland
and the female masses.
The women's
movement changed from the old type of feminism in the period
of democratic revolution to women's emancipation in the period
of new democratic revolution. In the first half of the 20th
Century, China experienced the War of Resistance Against Japan
(1937-1945) and Revolutionary Civil War (1945-1949). Chinese
Communist Party members led people to strive for national
independence and class liberation and regarded realization
of equality between men and women as a permanent goal.
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