On Chen Hengzhe's Feminist View

Chen HengZhe is a remarkable woman in modern history in China, who made outstanding achievements in literature, as well as in historiography. Her thoughts are influenced by both Chinese and western culture because of her profound Chinese knowledge foundation and the acceptance of western culture. Her happy family and marriage life help her keep an objective and calm mind when feminism is extremely popular. Her gentle and practical thoughts on feminism can be found throughout her view of feminism. In the 1920s and 1930s, she published a series of articles on the magazines such as "Independent Comment", and "Modern Comment", proposing her main view on feminism.Chen Hengzhe divides personality into two respects, one is " personal personality ", one is " sex personality ", the former is owned in common by all the men and women, the latter is men and women's different place, women's development should be the development in an all-round way of this dual personality. On one hand, she recommends women's liberation, woman's education, freedom of marriage, which were problems that feminists devoted to solving too, but her views of women were not merely limited herein, just as she said, she is not the highest doctrine person of women's rights, she emphasizes the sex characteristic that women are " the woman " too, and that this kind of sex characteristic brings responsibility of society and family. Chen Hengzhe's views of women is that women must equilibrium develop both as a man and as a women.This thesis use research approach that compare with contemporary proletariat , freedom intellectual, and other women view of femal authoress, in order to explore her characteristic. Chen Hengzhe's views are not laying the branding of the class , and there is no obvious political orientation in it, she is not free intellectual, it more come from observation in society radical. It is the universal fraternity of starting from a kind of humanitarianism. Some of her ideas, gives us another perspective on the issues we are thinking of female inspiration.