The Changing Roles of the Female Soldier in 20th Century China
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2014
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Bi-College (Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges). Department of East Asian Studies
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China in the 20th Century experienced massive political overhaul and social change. The focus of this essay is to examine the role women had in the militaries of this 20th century. I followed the political change because inherent in political change is military conflict, and in the military conflict is where the need for military members is the highest. With this high need there was also the most documentation about military members and endeavors. I examined what specific roles women carried out in these various regimes and looked at whether they differed from regime to regime. As the century progressed, the country also found itself in sweeping social change. Footbinding was becoming a thing of the past, and female education and jobs was becoming much more common and supported. What I found was that even though the country was experiencing all these advancements in terms of women's rights, the positions they were allowed to have in the military were the same regardless of regime or decade. These positions were all supportive, and secondhand in nature, and even when technology advanced and things like aviation became more important, women still were not formally allowed to be a part of combat or decision-making tactical roles in the military, and thus the integration of women into the Chinese military is not fully complete yet.