Chinese authorities investigate killer’s school to train submissive wives
Ex-con offers free classes to train women in the ‘traditional virtue’ of subservience to men
Authorities in northwestern China are investigating a controversial school set up by a former jailed killer to teach women the “traditional” value of being submissive to their husbands, Chinese media report.
The school in Fushun, Liaoning province, offers seven- and 20-day “women’s virtue” courses in which the participants are required to wake up 4.30 every morning and work on domestic chores for eight hours under the command of their tutors, according to the Liaoshen Evening News.
In the classes, tutors lectured the women to “talk less and work more” and chastised them for wearing make-up or having career ambitions, the report said.
Some of the women are sent to the school by their husbands and others by their employers. Places are also reportedly available for the young daughters of the women.
The school was founded by Kang Jinsheng, who left school at 14 after stabbing his teacher. He joined a gang and was on the run for three years after killing another gang member in 1988 before being arrested and given a suspended death sentence, the report said.