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The Chalice and The Blade in Chinese Culture: 
Gender Relations and Social Models

By Chinese Partnership Research Group at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. Edited by Professor Min Jiayin, China Social Sciences Publishing House, Beijing, August, 1995

Written for the 1995 U N Conference on Women, held in Beijing, China, September 1995, The Chalice and The Blade in Chinese Culture:

• Traces changing patterns in the relations between women and men over 20,000 years of Chinese history.
• Probes implications of changes in gender relations for religion, economics, education, and the family, as well as for both women's and men's day-to-day lives.

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Praise

"The Chalice and The Blade in Chinese Culture...is a great event...I believe that all those readers who care for Chinese women and who are interested in women's issues will obtain reliable information from this work, and thereby have a better understanding of the history and present conditions of Chinese women."

Ru Xin 

Executive Vice-President of 

Chinese Academy of Social Science 

"Gender relations in middle and late Neolithic China were characterized by equality, and the sexes worked together and shared wealth...The worship of goddesses also prevailed in prehistoric China."

Professor Jiao Tianlong 

from Chapter 2, 
The Chalice and The Blade in Chinese Culture 

"The Chalice and The Blade in Chinese Culture is a major contribution to an understanding of the centrality of 'women's issues' to our world's past, present, and future."

Riane Eisler 

Cultural Historian

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