Gu Hongming: Doing

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“In fact, the chief end of a woman in China is not to live for herself, or for society; not to be a reformer or to be president of the woman's natural feet Society; not to live even as a saint or to do good to the world; the chief end of a woman in China is to live as a good daughter a good wife and a good mother.”

Gu Hongming book The Spirit of the Chinese People

page 79
The Spirit of the Chinese People (1915), Chinese Woman

“A foreign lady friend of mine once wrote and asked me whether it is true that we Chinese believe, like the Mohamedans, that a woman has no soul. I wrote back and told her that we Chinese do not hold that a woman has no soul, but that we hold that a woman,—a true Chinese woman has no self.”

Gu Hongming book The Spirit of the Chinese People

page 79
The Spirit of the Chinese People (1915), Chinese Woman

“But people will say to me, "why ask selflessness and sacrifice only from the woman? What about the man?" To this, I answer, does not the man, the husband, who toils and moils to support his family, and especially if he is a gentleman, who has to do his duty not only to his family, but to his King and country, and, in doing that has, some time even to give his life: does he not also make sacrifice?”

Gu Hongming book The Spirit of the Chinese People

page 81
The Spirit of the Chinese People (1915), Chinese Woman