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The Theory of Good Wife and Wise Mother of the Chinese Women Writers in the First Half of the 20th century: Focused on Chen heng-zhe and Bing xin

Kim Eun Hee 1

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ABSTRACT

Among the women writers who started their literary career in the New Culture Movement, Chen Heng-zhe(陳衡哲) and Bing Xin(冰心) are the representative women who embodied ‘Good wife and Wise mother’ and asserted the theory of ‘Good wife and Wise mother’. These two women were influenced by the patriot of reformation who stressed the woman's active role in the national prosperity and military power in the last day of Qing(淸). Chen Heng-zhe asserted that women's housekeeping labor has the same value as man's social labor and it is the most important thing for women is to nurture child and perform the role of wise mother, while Bing Xin put stress on home and ‘Good wife and Wise mother’ consistently and regarded her mother as an ideal ‘Good wife and Wise mother’. Bing Xin's ideal ‘Good wife and Wise mother’ is the woman who not only has traditional virtue such as diligence, affection and sacrifice, but also is not lazy in developing oneself.

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