Confucianist's perception of woman : its influence on maxine Hong Kingston's the woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts and Amy Tan's the joyluck club

This thesis proposes to examine critically how the fundamental ideals contained within the philosophy of Confucius have evolved into social rites and rituals contained within the Five Classics and Four Classics for women. This is important for it is the social conventions that form the essential pat