The Mulan Factor

The Power of Literature

Out of Japan

Jin Tianhe

The Women's Bell

• Writes of the sorrows of women because of their inequality
• He calls them to fight for their rights
• Emulate themselves after Mulan and other revolutionary figures.

Liang Qichao

Liang Qichao

• China cannot be strong when the population that consumes it is twice as large as the population that consumes.
• Women are not inferior but have just been believed to be so because they were not strong enough to compete against men and have been under their control for so many years.

What "He" was fighting for

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• Rights to choose who they marry
• Education equality
• End to foot binding and other Qing Dynasty practices
• End of restriction to the home

He-Yin Zhen

He-Yin Zhen

• End of the control of women through marriage, Stops women from being able to experience all freedoms and sexualities which will make them more likely to rebel.
• End Marriage as a method of making women property. Because of the poverty of women they are sold to the man with the best financial situation and poor women have to sell themselves to these same men as prostitutes or concubines.
• Against violence in the name of equality.
• Recognize men as their archenemies. She argues that women are seen as subhuman and will be until government is abolished and men can be equal to other men.
• Women’s bodies have been over worked whether it be through sexual or physical labour.

Qiu jin and jingwei

Dogged Determination and Perserverance in the face of seemingly impossible odds

What "she" was fighting for

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• End of marriage
• End of using women for men's gains
• Social Equality
• (Some pent up anger)

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• End of marriage
• End of using women for men's gains
• Social Equality
• (Some pent up anger)