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The Influence of Confucian Cultural Values on the Social Roles of Contemporary Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Women
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Abstract
The background of the research is based on the problems and dilemmas faced by women in modern East Asian society. The research investigated how Confucius’s thoughts put social constraints on women in China, Japan, and South Korea because of their gender through the content of the books and the derived meaning of folk while looking at the ideological transformation of women in society to resist these regulations. People in those societies are often disciplined by thousands of years of traditional etiquette, hence the conflict between self-consciousness and cultural oppression brought about by Confucianism becomes an important topic among East Asian scholars. The paper aims to show how the Confucius norms build on the fixed gender role in different ways and analyze the social oppression of East Asian women, with the resistance and struggle that women are making in these countries. Hence a better understanding of the progress of women's rights in East Asian countries and the role of women in society. The significance of the paper is that it makes up the research gap on how Confucian culture oppresses women's social status and uses realistic scenes while demonstrating the transformation of women's self-consciousness under these regulations in a chronological sequence.
Keywords
Gender equality, Confucianism, Japan, China, South Korea
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Gao,F. (2024). The Influence of Confucian Cultural Values on the Social Roles of Contemporary Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Women. Communications in Humanities Research,25,58-63.
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