Freedom and Destiny: gender, family, and popular culture in Indoa

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Wen I-to : his life and poetry

Wen I-to, poet, painter, scholar and revolutionary, was born in Hupeh province, China, in 1899 and died by assassination at the age of forty-six in Kunming on 15 July 1946. His life-span embraced some of the most tumultuous events of modern times in China. On the political front, it covered the 1911 revolution against the Manchu government, the establishment of the Republic, the rise of modern national.ism during and after the May Fourth Movement in 1919, the growth of the Nationalist and Communist parties, the Northern Expedition for the unification of the country, the Kuomintang coup of 1927 and the consequent campaign against the Communists, and the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-45

State Policies and Women's Autonomy in China, India, and the Republic of Korea, 1950-2000: Lessons from Contrasting Experiences

The authors compare changes in gender roles and women's empowerment in China, India, and the Republic of Korea. Around 1950, these newly formed states were largely poor and agrarian, with common cultural factors that placed similar severe constraints on women's autonomy. They adopted very different paths of development, which are well known to have profoundly affected development outcomes. These choices have also had a tremendous impact on gender outcomes, and today these countries show striking differences in the extent of gender equity achieved. China has achieved the most gender equity, the Republic of Korea the least. The authors conclude that: a) States can exert enormous influence over gender equity. They can mitigate cultural constraints on women's autonomy (as in China and India) or slow the pace of change in gender equity despite women's rapid integration into education, formal employment, and urbanization (as in the Republic of Korea). b) The impact of policies to provide opportunities for women's empowerment can be greatly enhanced if accompanied by communication efforts to alter cultural values that place heavy constraints on women's access to those opportunities