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The faults of Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, are many but on one count he has a splendid score. This is that of equal rights for women, for they “hold up half the sky”, he said. In the Imperial era, as those familiar with the tale of the “Last Emperor”, Aisin Gero Pu Yi, can testify, women were treated as chattel. Their feet were bound at a very young age, and thereby painfully preventing them from growing. The smaller the (once bound) feet, the more respected the woman was. The bigger the feet, the more contempt was foisted on the lady. Not just the Emperor, but noblemen and rich merchants kept a flock of concubines, treating them as they chose. They were supervised by a eunuch who had been castrated at a very young age. The hobby of such eunuchs, apart from eating, was to be cruel towards the concubines, for ...
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