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Mao Zedong, a portrait of whom is seen at the Tiananmen rostrum, famously said that women hold up half the sky, and gave them equal rights to education and employment. Photo: Simon Song
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Lijia Zhang
No place in modern China for women’s morality classes that seek to turn the clock back, 70 years after Mao proclaimed equality
- Feudal notions of ‘female virtue’, chastity and submissiveness are rearing their ugly heads across the country as more turn to outdated ideas of morality to address a growing discomfort with permissiveness in society
Updated: 4:01am, 8 Jun, 2019
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Mao Zedong, a portrait of whom is seen at the Tiananmen rostrum, famously said that women hold up half the sky, and gave them equal rights to education and employment. Photo: Simon Song
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