Talk:Women in ancient and imperial China

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castration
The focus on castration is still very much in violation of Undue_weight. plus, are we going to put a castration section on every single empire that practiced castration? the byzantines, romans, ottoman, and other empires all practiced castation, and we are not putting a special section for castration on each of their respective pages regarding women in the ottoman empire, byzantine empire, roman empire.

due to the fact that castration of women is impossible, it is logical that laws for castration can only apply to men. this applies to all other empires which had castration as punishment. The byzantines castrated as punishment, and it can only be done on men, that does not mean we create an article on byzantine women or greek women and mention that they were exempt from castration. totally illogical.

Chinese law contained hundreds of offenses for every possible offence imaginable, from disprespecting ones parents to using the emperor's name Naming taboo, which ranged from getting a slip on the wrist to death by Slow slicing. Are we going to list every single offense and punishment under chinese law? seriously?

in addition, the procedure for castration is already documented at the castration article itself. all that is needed is a link to castration, rendering irrelevant the extra sentences "castration included removal of the penis" or etc.Bunser (talk) 21:23, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Unbalanced/Poor Quality
The first section of the article dealing with Chinese women is almost entirely unsourced, and it needs to be expanded with concrete evidence and supporting statements, because without it this section comes across as vague and overly broad. By the way, nice job by previous editors to try and further the stereotype of Asian female submissiveness and Asian male oppression by only including negative aspects and making blanket statements about them that for all we know is drawn from widely accepted truisms rather than actual research. Compare this article with "Women in Ancient Rome", and I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.254.151.72 (talk) 08:56, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

The statements are almost false without having any firm evidence.Especially when talking about Turkic muslims and Chinese muslims,it is quite racist. Prostitutes in the country is not divided by ethnic groups. Actually Chinese prostitutes are more than other ethnic groups since the religious and traditional values of other ethnic groups are more strict.Plus chinese population is far more than other ethnic group Wiki should never allow this kind of racisit statements to be published. This article is rather a racist and subjective than academic.I think this artcile should be taken down. Because these false and racist statements might misguide readers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.253.141.123 (talk) 19:05, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

This article is very poor and has little to do with ancient China
This article isn't really about Ancient China. This is nearly all about the middle ages. Footbinding has a sketchy history but it probably only came in during the Sung Dynasty, Islam isn't really an ancient religion and its arrival in China was again during the middle ages. I'll try to focus and edit this page a bit in the future but I've got a lot on my to do list...Sir Langan (talk) 04:36, 25 October 2013 (UTC)