Research Paper on:
Mao Zedong's Cultural Vision Of China

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create disasters. That way you can lessen our burden." Mao Zedong Maoist cultural vision of China was wholly one-sided with regard to gender. When he spoke of revolution,  he spoke to men; when he spoke of power of the people, he did not mean women; when he spoke of education, he was not addressing females. Clearly, Mao  sought to create a Chinese culture based upon patriarchy, misogyny and autocracy. Lu Xin discusses a culture full of mixed message where a womans place was concerned by describing her  brief marriage that ended with a child and a divorce. Her husband betrayed her because she did not perform to his liking in the bedroom; had she not been  so sheltered from reality, she would have known about sex far earlier than right before her wedding but as it was her mother took the task of instructing her na?ve  daughter. In true patriarchal fashion, Xins husband had expectations of his wife to uphold two very different personas: mother and servant in public and whore in private. But  Xin was not worldly in that way and had no experience in or understanding of seduction, romance or lovemaking. Her husband soon grew tired of this gaping void in  their marriage and had an affair, despite her complete loyalty and subordination to him. She yearned to be a more sophisticated woman in her husbands eyes yet she thirty  years old without even an inkling of what it meant to be of the female gender. "I hate what he did to me," says Xin, "however, in a way,  Im thankful about what happened because it made me re-examine my life. After I recovered, I became a stronger person" (Jiang et al, 2000, p. 17).