Women's Education In Modern Xiamen

In the endless ancient times, the Chinese women have been in a low social status of"Male domineered" society, and were deprived of school education rights together with men. Women's education long-term regards home education as principleFollowing the Opium War in 1840, China became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. The society was forced to undergo tremendous changes. As the trading port gradually open up, the western missionary came to China as following, and started schools for women first, breaking the taboo of thousands of years and creating a campaign of women's education. Xiamen is one of the earliest trading ports, also becoming the first station to held women's education in Xiamen for church, which includs primary and secondary schools. Stimulated by the women's education held by the church, Xiamen people also began to value female education gradually. Overseas Chinese and local businessmen cheerfully set up schools and support women's education. This fast fierce development of woman education at that time maked Xiamen become one of the centers of the woman education of southeast coast. From the 20's and 30's of 20th century to the end of the war against Japanese invading, the education system of woman in Xiamen tends in perfect. After having experienced the breaking of war, woman education in Xiamen again re- bursts out the vitality.This paper collates and analyzes the four stages of women's education in Xiamen, going deep in to discussing the development characteristics of modern woman education in Xiamen. The receiving way of women education is diverse. For the gender division, there are schools men and women can study together, and also specialized schools for girls; for the organizers, both the church-run and public and private supporters had done the job. Seeing from the system, it developed completely, providing greater space for female in Xiamen to choose. But the development of higher education is relatively thin and the selectivity is smaller. For the development of the women educational thoughts in Xiamen, We can see that the women's education experienced"good wife and a devoted mother"doctrine, and the national education stage during the War of Resistance against Japan, and finally accepted the idea of gender equality. This is specifically reflected in the promotion of men and women learning together, the curriculum of women's education, and little difference between educational goals for women and men.In addition to lengthways analysis of history progress, this paper also includs cases analysis and comparison between Xiamen, Fuzhou and Shanghai. Through the deep analysis of two representation schools for girls—Yude and Jimei, we can get profound understanding of the development process, the level of development and features. Then through the comparison between Xiamen, Fuzhou and Shanghai, we can grasp accurately about status of women's education in Xiamen in Fujian province or even the nation. It started early and has highly universality degrees and perfect system, as well as wide noodles in characteristics.