Gu Hongming book The Spirit of the Chinese People
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The Spirit of the Chinese People (1915), Chinese Woman
“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.”
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