Bound Feet And Western Dress

The tradition of Chinese culture is deeply rooted and inherited from generation to generation. However, for social development and worldwide efforts, there must always be room for change in the present age. In 'binding legs' and 'Western costumes' there was a conflict between Chinese tradition and modern change. In this dispute it is important to discuss the different meanings of male and female release and the way they are released in their lifetime. Due to the spread of gender, China's liberation means two different things for men and women.

Zhang Pangmei's binding feet and suit. Growing into a dangerous year between the fall of the last Emperor and the Communist revolution, Zhang Yuyi's life was a series of rebellion: she said she was her child, her scandal and her divorce during her divorce I restrained my feet. After that, he served as the first vice president of the Chinese female bank. With two generations of alternating voices, this double memoirs is struggling to find their own identities and belongings together, as well as the American story of assimilation prostitutes and Yu Meil ​​i, China It brings a portrait of deep texture of women in life.

Compared to Loung Ung, Chang Yu-I (from Bound Feet and Western Dress) was born in a wealthier family, but her family has less privilege. Yu-I lives in the courtyard with two courtyards and her family. Her family inherited a lot of land from her grandfather, a senior judge of the imperial government. Her father is also a respected doctor. In Chinese customs, at the age of 3, young girls need to start a painful detention process. The reason is that Chinese men feel their feet exotic. Unless it was due to her second brother protest, I could not escape from this terrible fate. Her father also had different expectations for children. Yu-I's eight brothers received higher education, but the girls are not, Yu-I. Her father thinks that education is useless when a girl gets married.

Parents are brought up to ignore their daughters as they believe that Chinese culture has no value for women. For example, with bounded feet and clothes, Chan talks about birth rituals. "When a baby is born, I put the umbilical cord in a bottle under my mama's bed, I will be her when a girl is born, the umbilical cord is placed outside of a girl, a father's house, age There is no need to preserve the umbilical cord of the guest "(page 6). The umbilical cord is the reason the baby is stuck to her mother. By breaking the relationship between the mother and the child, we can see that the daughter is not valuable to the family. Also, in the "earth", when Wan Long's wife Oran gave another girl, I thought that Wan Long had to open another mouth, "If you do not breathe it will be gentle ... And he is crying weakly ... ... I did not cry for the second time (p. 82) Then O-lan showed him a dead baby under the cover