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Show How China Is Advancing. I The new woman has appeared in 1 China. She believes she has an lndi- vlduallty, a personality, a soul, just as ; indubitably as has man, contrary to j the teachings of Buddhism and other native religious. Polygamy she has i not yet conquered perhaps many of them have no Interest in the perishing j of that old custom but those who have embraced Christianity are fighting fight-ing against that evil among the many others which have fettered and bound the women of China for untold generations. gener-ations. Woman has been the slave or the toy of man, her life one ceaseless round of obedience, first to her father, then to her husband and finally, if widowed, to her son. The first leaven that worked among the old slaveries of women In China was put there by the early Christian missionaries. That leaven has worked until now the dough, so to speak, of the new womanhood is overflowing the bowls of tradition and oppression. |