Abstract:

Although it had once vigorously promoted the legalization of Chinese women’s education in the late Qing Dynasty and early years of the Republic of China, the doctrine of “good wife and devoted mother”was denied in the New Culture Movement. “Nora left home” became the myth of the establishment of female subjectivity after the May 4th Movement. After the rejection of the doctrine of “good wife and devoted mother” in the New Culture Movement, “abandoned children” became a common phenomenon in the emancipation of women. Meanwhile, the trauma of abandoned children, via obscure writings, became a certain modern “fable”, revealing the unconsciousness of father power in the emancipation of Chinese women.

Key words: the doctrine of &ldquo, good wife and devoted mother&rdquo, , individualism, the emancipation of women, the trauma of abandoned children