The Contemporary World
Topic:
Compare the Position
between
male an female in traditional Chinese society and the Contemporary Hong Kong
Group A:
Amy,
Agnes, Anthony, Flora, Janet
Outline
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Film Review
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Family Role and Emotional Orientation
Minds
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Minds
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Occupation
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Social Status
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Education
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Conclusion
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Discussion
Film
Studies
Traditional
Chinese society:
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The kings of the masks(變臉)
Contemporary
Hong Kong:
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La brassiere (絕世好bra)
Family Role
and Emotional Orientation Minds
The
family role I
Traditional Chinese society:
Male is the core of the family.
Female only is an assistant.
Reasons:
Patriarchy(父權制)
Men
Vs Women
Male:
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Head
master the family members
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Have job and education
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Money
•
Teacher of the children
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Heir(繼承人)
Female:
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Stay at home
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Take care of the family
•
No schooling or job
•
No heritage (遺產)
The
family role II
The Contemporary Hong Kong:
The
role of male and female are being more closed.
Reasons:
Impact
of Western Culture
E.g.
Feminist (女權制)
Men
Vs Women
Male:
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Share household work
Female:
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Less or no household work
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Job
•
Educated
•
Have heritage
The
Emotional orientation
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Sex-outside-marriage
Ø
Lacks
of freedom-----love and marriage
Sex-outside-marriage
I
Traditional Chinese society:
Not allowed in the traditional china
E.g. Raise and Red lantern
Reasons:
Ø
Violate
traditional Chinese culture
Ø
Illegal
in the society
Sex-outside-marriage
II
The Contemporary Hong Kong:
Sex-outside-marriage become common
now.
Reasons:
Ø
People
more open-minded than before
Ø
Prevalent
Lacks of
freedom-of love and marriage I
Traditional Chinese society:
Male-dominated society. People were
lack of freedom of love
Reasons:
Ø
Their
spouses were assigned by their parents
Ø
Only
get married once only, long commitment
Ø
No
divorce
Lacks of
freedom-of love and marriage II
The Contemporary Hong Kong:
Both men and women have freedom of love and marriage.
E.g. City of glass
Reasons:
Ø
Marriage
is not a life-long commitment anymore
Minds
The action
of minds
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Fashion and Style
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Body Shape
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Sex
Fashion
and Style I
Traditional Chinese society:
Men
and women have very little fashion and styles. Styles of clothes seldom change.
Only
little women in high social status wore fashion like Qi-pao, and these Qi-pao
have long straight cut which cover whole body.
Reasons:
--Conservative
--The society focus more on women's
appearance but not intelligence
Men Vs
Women
Men:
Straight Cutting,
Mono colour suits
and trousers
Women:
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Clothes covered whole body, high
collar, straight cutting, no emphasis in curve shape of female body.
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They sew and cut to make cloths themselves.
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After 40, women insulated with fashion. Just wear black
and dull traditional shirts until dead.
Fashion
and Style II
The Contemporary Hong Kong:
Both cloths of men and women are more colourful. Shape cutting. Have own
styles. Main target is the population, so made massive production.
Reasons:
--Faster pace and busy life
--Individualism
--Ability of women to consume goods
increase
--Influence of media
--Fashion
equal to freedom
Men Vs
Women
Men:
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Colourful
shirts
Women:
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No matter how old the women are, they
always wear fashion.
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Emphasis shape of body, more open, low
cutting.
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Buy from shops, seldom make by hand.
E.g. U2, G2000, OPA
Body Shape
I
Traditional Chinese Society:
Men must strong with physical power.
Women only emphasize on the body shape. They were not thin and some were
fat to represent "healthy and wealthy"
Reasons:
Masculine…
Body Shape
II
The Contemporary Hong Kong:
Men
are not required to be strong, some act like girls
Women
like to be slim, not “S” shape.
Reasons:
--Youth
culture from American
--
Youth still not yet finish develop their bodyà slim
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Slim means fashion (市場年青化)
Sex I
Traditional Chinese society:
--Extremely
conservative,
no sex outside marriages
--Both
gender have no way
to express their need in sex desire
Reasons:
--Limitation
of traditional culture
Sex II
The Contemporary Hong Kong:
More open-minded, especially women.
Both parts can be dominated.
Women are not controlled by men
anymore, independent, can choose to have sex or not.
Reasons:
Introduction
of contraceptive pills
Occupation
Occupation
Ø
Ratio
of occupation opportunity
Ø
Ratio
of the working position in company
Ø
Sexual
discrimination in the employment
Ratio of
occupation opportunity I
Traditional Chinese society:
Occupation opportunity of female is
small
Reasons:
Ø
Sexism--Male
has greater ideological situation.
Ø
Systemize--Social
constructed and stereotype.
Ratio of
occupation opportunity II
The Contemporary Hong Kong:
The Occupation opportunity of female
greatly increase.
Reasons:
Ø
Feminist
–seeks equal rights for women
Ø
Development
of economic and technology
Ø
The
percentage of occupation opportunity between male and women
Ratio of
working position in company I
Traditional Chinese society:
Mostly, male has a higher working position than female.
Reasons:
Ø
Sexual
discrimination
Ø
Traditional
Chinese culture, e.g. female not
well-educated.
Ratio of
working position in company II
The Contemporary Hong Kong:
Female also has an opportunity to work in higher position.
Reasons:
Ø
Feminist--more
independent
Ø
Impact
of Western culture
Sexual
discrimination in employment I
Traditional Chinese society:
The problem of sexual discrimination
is very serious.
Example:
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The
type of occupation is limited to the female.
Ø
Most
of the occupation is under control by the male.
Ø
The
female got unfair treatment in same working position.
Sexual
discrimination in employment II
The Contemporary Hong Kong:
The problem of sexual discrimination is less than before.
Reasons:
Ø
Feminist
– more independent, the position increase
Ø
Legislation
from the Government
Conclusion
on occupation I
Ø
In
past, few of women have an opportunity to work, so few of them have an
opportunity to work in higher position. These situation will lead to the problem
of sexual discrimination due to the lower position of the women.
Conclusion
on occupation II
Ø
Nowadays,
many women have an opportunity to work, and some of them can work in higher
position. It is mainly due to the impact of Western culture to Chinese.
v
--
Feminist
Democracy
Social Status
Social
Status I
Traditional Chinese society:
Male was in high position while
female was in low position.
Reasons:
--Patriarchy
Men Vs
Women
Male:
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Employment,
•
Master of the family.
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Work in government Official
•
King
Women:
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Bound in the house
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No education
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Only household work
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Cant enter the government Official
Social
Status II
The Contemporary Hong Kong:
Male
and female are more equal.
Reasons:
--Sexual
discrimination is illegal
Female:
Education, employment
Male:
No big change
Men Vs
Women
Male:
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The status does not have great change.
Female:
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More educated,
•
Employment
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Can be Government Officer, e.g. Mrs.
Rita FAN HSU Lai-tai
Other
factors……
•
Equal Opportunities Commission
•
Lee Lai-Shan
Education
Education
I
Traditional Chinese society:
Only boys go to school, Girls and women stay at home
Reasons:
Parents
are not open-minded
“The
married daughter,
just like
the spilt water”
Education
II
Traditional Chinese society:
Female
low educated
Only
rich people can go to school
Few
girls graduate from high schools or university
Few
go overseas to study
Consider
boys first
Reasons:
Parents
are still not open-minded
Expensive
Education
III
The Contemporary Hong Kong:
Both sex
can go to school or go further study overseas
Reasons:
9 years
free education
universal
education
Education
IV
The Contemporary Hong Kong:
People
more higher education, more intellectual.
Effects:
Find jobs
Not depend on men
Career
Society status
Money
Marry late
Conclusion
The
position of women nowadays is totally different from the past.
In
family: women no longer act as a pure wife or mother, they can make decision for
the family, not just men.
In
society: women have equal jobs opportunities as men they can get a higher
position in a company. It is mainly due to the better education that women have
received
Discussion
Question:
If
you have only one choice, do you prefer a baby boy or a baby girl?