There was a huge women's liberation movement. The reason ccp got women on their side was by campaigning for equality between men and women. The slogan was "wome

There was a huge women's liberation movement. The reason ccp got women on their side was by campaigning for equality between men and women. The slogan was "women can hold half of the sky". ccp pushed for women to get access in education, be free from their husbands, from traditional family roles. Why women can't do what a man can do? Why women can't learn how to read? Why women can't make decision in the house? Why women can't handle money in the house? Why women have to have their foot bound? Why women can't be industrialized workers (In 1950s, working as industrial worker was the cool job), Why women can't become soldiers? My grandma was born in 1931, she had her foot bounded, didn't learn how to read, and was arranged married to my grandpa. After the PRC was founded, she was in her 20s, a young woman, She joined ccp. And went around in her village to talk about women's rights. Why couldn't women do this, why men are so privilege etc. She got a lot of illiterate women to join a study club, learning how to read, telling the women how to standup, grow a spine, not be weak. I am surprised people didn't know there was a women's movement. If you look at the movement just by itself, the transformation of women's standing in the society and culture before and after is massive. Comparing across the global, it is still one of the largest transformations. But prephas it is all buried in the ccp, communism, and mao, all that bad rep. What actually caused, triggered, happened in the Chinese revolution between 1930 to 1960s is never talked about, never being looked at objectively. Only those who lived through that history, personally experienced it, knew the good, the bad, the legit and craziness. The world is not black and white. Things always happen for a reason. Before my grandma passed away, she had a portrait of mao in her home. And talked fondly of what ccp meant to her and the changes it brought to her life.