{"id":626,"date":"2021-10-04T17:12:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T17:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/?p=626"},"modified":"2021-10-04T17:12:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T17:12:39","slug":"the-way-of-confucius-and-modern-life-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/2021\/10\/04\/the-way-of-confucius-and-modern-life-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Way of Confucius and Modern Life” Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Ch’en Tu-hsiu\u2019s “The Way of Confucius and Modern Life,” something I found especially interesting was how the traditional Confucian ideals of women\u2019s participation in politics and society compared with those of modern life. The text emphasized the idea that the movement of women\u2019s participation in politics is also an important element of a woman\u2019s life in modern life. Because Confucian teaching states \u201cTo be a woman means to submit,\u201d that \u201cThe wife\u2019s words should not travel beyond her own apartment,\u201d and that \u201cA woman does not discuss affairs outside the home,\u201d it was often women unusual for them to participate in politics. Further, because they were bound by these Confucian teachings and women were expected to obey not only their father and husband but also their son, they were unable to form their own political party and make choices for themselves. I also was interested in the idea of women in modern life making their own living in various professions, whereas, in the Con\u00adfucian way of thinking, the text notes \u201cIn giving or receiving anything, a man or woman should not touch the other\u2019s hand,\u201d \u201cA man does not talk about affairs inside [the household] and a woman does not talk about affairs out\u00adside [the household],\u201d and \u201cthey do not exchange cups except in sac\u00adrificial rites and funerals.\u201d Because a married woman is also expected to obey her husband, the wife is supported by the husband is not able to live independently in the Confucian tradition. I thought enjoyed reflecting on the ways in which this text connected to the topics we discussed last week regarding women\u2019s contributions in early China and how often, women\u2019s contributions to society were only seen as important when they had to do with the success of her husband or sons, as was the case with the <\/span>Mencius\u2019 Mother passage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Ch’en Tu-hsiu\u2019s “The Way of Confucius and Modern Life,” something I found especially interesting was how the traditional Confucian ideals of women\u2019s participation in politics and society compared with those of modern life. The text emphasized the idea that the movement of women\u2019s participation in politics is also an important element of a woman\u2019s… Continue reading “The Way of Confucius and Modern Life” Reflection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9197028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9197028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}