DOI: 10.36347/sjebm.2016.v03i06.005

Pages: 340-346

It is a classic problem about the women’s status. Many people, especially people in China, where people prefer boys to girls with long tradition, would have different stereotypes toward the status of women in ancient western world and China and believe that the status of women in ancient Greek would be prior to that in ancient China. Even in some serious researches about women’s status, the opinion is overwhelming. However, this opinion is derived from the literary works mainly, and such opinion is not correct with regard to the investigation to the historical realities. Previous studies of women status were confined in the content literary works, but not noticed the different literary modes between the western and China literatures. The aim of the article was to analyze the origin of the opinion in the perspective of investigation to the different literary modes. The article concluded that such opinion was influenced by the different representations of women in ancient Greek and China critically and that caused the incorrect stereotypes about women in the western world and China.