Amy tan

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background
1922 is the end of the Qing Dynasty and in the
early Republic of China . This is a times
which east and west's culture flow across to each
other.
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Amy tan

• A Famous American writer of Chinese descent

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1949 Parents immigrate from China to America .
Then go adrift for many years.
After her father died , they have lived in
Switzerland until graduating from senior high
school.
1969 return to America and settle down in
California
At first she study in a college of medicine in
order to fulfill her mother s expectation.
Then she give up shortly.
Continues the studies to the San Jose Municipal
college. Transfers majors in linguistics her to
the literary academy
After that Tan graduates from San Jose State
University, obtains the linguistics master's
degree in 1973
Amy tan 's novels pay particular attention to
ethnicity, family history, and the importance of
female voices
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storyline
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• Look at their bound feet! Look at that funny lady
  with the plucked forehead
• They are in mourning

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• They were not peasant women but big city
  people,very modern.
• They went to dance halls and wore stylish
  clothes. They were supposed to be the lucky ones.

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Mothers second cousin

• She turned down a lawyer and married another man.
  Later she divorced her husband, a daring thing
  for a woman to do.
• concubine

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Uncles wife

• Her husband, my great-uncle, often complained
  that his family had chosen an ugly woman for his
  wife.
• Great-uncles family eventually chose a pretty
  woman for his second wife.

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• doomma.big mother
• Why else did she remarry, disobeying her familys
  orders to remain a widow forever?
• Doomma died the same way she livedstrong,sufferi
  ng lots.

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• A rich man,who liked to collect pretty
  women,raped my grandmother and thereby forced her
  into becoming one of his concubines.
• A concubine was like some kind of prostitute. my
  mother was a good woman,high-class. she had no
  choice.

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• You did not live in china then. You do not know
  what its like to have no position in life.

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• ?ancient --- patriarchy(????)
• ?16th century --- Renaissance(????)
• ?art, science, and values changed

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• ?17th century --- rationalism(????)
• ? (1) gender equality (2) education
• ?18th century --- an epoch of revolution(?????)
• ? (1) labored jobs (2)initiative(???) in
  economy

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• ?19th century --- women started to establish
  school
• ?(1) St. Hildas College
• (2) Troy Female Seminary(???)

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• ?20th century!!
• WWI (2) WWII (3) Economic depression
• ?Now --- gender equality has almost been achieved

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Concubines of ancient China

• Concubines are women who cohabit with men but are
  not married to them.
• In ancient China position of the concubine was
  inferior to that of the wife. The concubine was
  heavily dependent on the nature of the wife, and
  the favour of her husband.
• Traditional western laws do not acknowledge the
  legal status of concubines, rather only admitting
  monogamous marriages.

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Concubines in Islam

• Islam admits that man has the right to possess
  concubines along with his wife, or wives, to
  fulfil his sexual needs.
• They theoretically don't have the rights and
  competence that free women enjoy.

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Ancient tradition of womens bound feet

• The tradition of binding Chinese women's feet to
  make them appear as small as a lotus bud was
  thought to have started at the end of the Tang
  dynasty a thousand years ago.
• Manchus and Westerners attempted to ban the
  custom.

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The history of women in the East

• Acient time
• WomenObjectTool.... ex. Xi Shi(??),Diao
  Chan(??),Wang Zhaojun(???) 

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• Medieval(about Tang Dynasty)
• Tang codea couple wishing to divorce on the
  basis of mutual consent and a peaceful process
  were not to be punished
• Wu Zetian(???)

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• Modern time
• Women can do almost whatever they want!!!

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