| China women’s liberation is always explained under national environment. Every woman wanted to break the traditional constraints, and was in the pursuit of freedom and equality. Meanwhile, women shouldered the responsibility of national survival and salvation during Japanese invasion from 1937. There was a lack of human resource and substance due to the war, and the Republic government appealed to anti-invasion and national salvation, all these needed to mobilize the women to take part into the war. In another way, the women’s mobilization provided a new channel to change their traditional patterns of family life. Soong Mayling as the "First Lady" was orthodox at the time, so she can make the mobilization to obtain political resources, and she also can eliminate the social resistance and indifference. In order to mobilize women to join the war supporting quickly and effectively, the women communities hoped Soong Mayling to lead the women’s mobilization.Soong Mayling took practical actions to set an example through propaganda, condoled with the army, safeguarded the children, developed the production, and trained the women during the mobilization. She successfully played the role as women leaders during the anti-Japanese war, and realized the solidarity of women across the country. Women’s mobilization aroused some women to some extent through training of women cadres, establishment of women’s organizations, expanding the women’s social works, so the revolutionary forces emerged along with the women’s mobilization. In addition, Soong Mayling as the female representative of the government, alleviated the women’s discontent caused by the national government, helped the government to rule and control women’s movement to a certain extent, and brought the women’s movement into the orbit of political domination of the Republic government.This research focused on the women’s mobilization by Soong Mayling, and investigated her mobilization thoughts, organizational ability and practical ability, and described her historical contribution for the anti-Japanese war. The women’s activities and the national requirements were connected together under the mobilization by Soong Mayling, and she used the national women’s organizations to mobilize and shape the women. She emphasized the women’s social rights and reputation, and required women to participate in social activities and bear the responsibility to save the nation in the war time, as a result to realize their own value. On the other hand, she strengthened the women’s subordinate position in the family and in society, so she just built a one-way of the responsibilities and obligation between the women and the nation, sliding over the women’s political aspirations. This is not a real women’s liberation. |
