Bandcock

China- no place for single women, arranged at first menstruation by matchmaker, husbands 10-30 years older, dowry and bride given to husband and family, no more with old family, new boss is mother-in-law, more status w/ more sons, wives can be sold w/price of grain, divorce ok by husband family, no divorce if parents of wife are dead or husband is rich now but was poor before, in death, widow has no future, doesn't have to bear children, remarriage only to lower class.

Hindu- if death of husband occurs 1st, female has no right to remarry, responsibility of children, shaved head, clothes white, no jewelry, no amusements- if she mourns death and does all listed she has been forgiven all bad karma and her husband have 35 years of bliss(sati).

China- value scale=positive virtues where female has 3 submissions to father, son, and husband, good behavior where wifely respect for in-laws, negative behavior where female licentiousness, and evil behavior where wives have jea

Te: good for government, means power, ethical.

Wu Wei- in action, frictionless action, to a minimum.

China- femal=yin, body, dark, weak, passive (inferior), hands tied together for obedience, feet bound together, menstruation thought of as pollution, "wait and see" period if female lives through birth, learn to cook, sew, clean. Wealthy families adopt girls to be wives for their sons (taught as good daughter-in-law)= thought as educating girl is to weed someone else's garden.

Chun tzu: humanity at best, for mature people, superior person.

Buddhism-no one single person original it/steamed off of Hinduism. Moved around India and now throughout the world//////conf. China, by one indi.//confu-became famous after his death./////Taoism steamed off of confusion, in china, no single indi.

Some topics in this essay:
Issues- Hindu-male, Ideas- Hindu-, Creative Quietude-, , Consist Chinese, Confucianism- Spontaneous, Vedas Householder, Moved India, Wu Wei-, heaven= personal, heaven= personal destiny, destiny ancestor, personal destiny, husband family, 49 days, harmony nature, placement tests, deliberate tradition-, personal destiny ancestor, suffering stop, 3 stages,