Although Wild Swans is set at a time of great political and social change, the book tells us stories about people, too. In particular, girls and women, their identities and relationships.
The book describes how girls and women are brought up; how each culture determines how they should behave; what their goals and ideals should be; what customs, duties, ideals they should have.
How are women described and presented in the opening pages of Wild Swans?
Scroll down this page, a text from Ban Zhou. Read the headings in her Lessons for Women. Read any of the lessons too if you wish. I am sure you will have plenty of opinions about this that you would like to share.
(For a more up to date insight, you could try this documentary; I haven't watched it all. But I'm reading Factory Girls, and am trying to get a better understanding of women in China.)
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