Ban Zhao

[Amy Chen]

I was genuinely surprised that a female author proposed the inferiorty of women in Chinese culture. The extent to which women were degraded was even more shocking. I never knew female babies were kept underground. The notion that women weren't considered a person until they gave birth to a son is one I know of. Professor Yan also opened my eyes to the fact that Mao called for gender equality during the Culture Revolution which was turned down by men.