The Impact of Concubine System On female Subordination in Chinese Society

In most western societies, especially in the American society, the awareness on female power is a prevalent issue that has already been promoted widely by feminists and womanists for decades. However in most eastern countries, particularly in China, issues regarding female power are almost still unheard and unthought-of. Yet, this does not indicate that problems such as female subordination are nonexistent in China; instead, it represents a much more serious problem underneath. For people in …

…of Chinese recorded history, concubine system was already recorded which on another hand; it already has a history of almost five-thousand years. Every emperor in China throughout Chinese history owned numerous, sometimes said to be countless of Mistresses and those men with a governmental status or just any rich common males, also owns several Mistresses in their household. To become a mistress, there is no special qualification because one simply needs to be a woman.