CAJ | 학술논문

In the history of feudal society, women were suffering from the oppression and inequality in their family and status, and also strict restriction from the society. Their freedom was limited and they could not make full use of their wisdom, and abili?ty. But the role of women did not stay the same during the feudal society. It had changed though the fundamental role remained the same. Here in this essay, it mainly talked about the changing role of Chinese in history, from the beginning of the Qing Dy?nasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It collected information, and evidences from two books which were of great value to inves?tigate women’s role. They were Cao Xueqin’s the Dream of Red Mansions and Lin Yutang’s Moment in Peking. A great por?tion of these two book’s main characters were women, no matter what their social statuses were, no matter what roles they were playing in the big feudal family. Based on the result of analysis, the study suggests that women have been making progress all the time in changing their situation. And the development of economy has given women immense chances to achieve their self-actu?alization.