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The Chinese Imperial law depicts the penalties enacted to offenders. It majored in

punishing the offenders for the atrocities they committed. According to Dingyuan (2) asserts that

the assumptions were evident where Lin was incarcerated for her crimes against religion

(Dingyuan, 2). The degree of crime was significant as the couple manipulated the beliefs of the

Chinese people. The punishment involved the couple acknowledges that the imperial law

grounded women from re-marrying twice (Sillok, 2). It was evident that the Chinese applauded

honor amongst their women to the extent that their offspring were exempted from holding

administrative offices. In the delegation of the laws, they were termed to be impersonal, certain,

and they incorporated the citizens of the state. They were certain as they gave specific rules that

were to be followed. Their impersonal nature implicated there was no special treatment for

dignified members of the society. It was evident that the Imperial law protects all citizens.

The ideal virtues of Chinese women revolved around the values they held. According to

Ditter, (69), women were valued as sexual objects. In the excerpt, Li Fu is depicted to have

concubines he did not want to approach; instead, they fed and clothed him (Ditter, 69). In this

illustration, it is clear that the women held inferior positions as compared to their male

counterparts. As per Moreover, Tzu (83) asserts that women corpses were treated differently in

that they were mandated to conduct autopsies to their colleagues (Moreover, Tzu, 83). It was
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wrong for a man to study the body of a woman. It is evident that the women were considered

inferior to the men and were obliged to serve their desires. Tingyu (29) asserts that Ming Taizu

stole some bread for the emperor during a time when the harvest was low (Tingyu, 29). It is

evident from the instances that women undertook their role of sustaining the needs of their male

counterparts. They were delegated to take care of their men for sexual, health, and hunger

desires.
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Work Cited:

Dingyuan, Lan. Excerpts from the Casebook of the County Magistrate Lan Dingyuan: Depraved

Religious Sects Deceive People.

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/china/depraved_religious_sects.pdf

Ditter. The Female Slave of Li Fu. Pg. 67.

Sillok, Songjong. Excerpts from the Songjong Sillok: Prohibition Against Remarriage

Of Women, 1477.

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/korea/neoconfucian_reform_women.pdf

Tzu, Sung. The Washing Away of Wrongs. Pg. 83.

Tingyu, Zhang. Empress of the Ming Dynasty: 1368-1462, from the History of the Ming

Dynasty. Pg. 29.