Abstract: Where did the elite’s campaign on behalf of the freedom of love and marriage go after the “May 4 Movement”? How was it put into practice? By examining the Women’s Journal, which solicited contributions to the topic of “my ideal partner,” we will find that young people paid much attention to women’s schooling and education and regarded women’s education as the sole way to disentangle “the new woman” from “the old woman,” and hence, as crucial to constructing a “perfect” family model. Women’s education gradually became an authoritative and influential ideology.

Key words: modern family, woman education, male intellectual, Women&rsquo, s Journal, &ldquo, the new woman&rdquo, 