sendiri dan diberikan hak setara dalam perceraian, kepemilikan anak-anak, dan harta benda. Namun, efeknya terbatas dan di pedesaan umunya diabaikan 120.”
“A new marriage rule had been introduced which allowing women to choose their own spouse and given equivalent right on separation, children proprietary, and good
and chattel. However, there is limited effects and to the countryside generally neglected 120.”
Twitchett and Fairbank reported, “… By the time of the New Culture movement of 1917-1921, this had become part of the rebellion of youth against
family domination. Freedom of personal choice in marriage was still another innovation 27”. The struggle to improve women’s social roles starts to appear.
Marriage is one of the results.
C. Theoretical Framework
In this section, this study would summarize and synthesize the contribution of the theories mentioned in the analysis of this study. This study carried out socio-
cultural historical approach to support the analysis since the object of the study is Jung Chang’s work entitled Wild Swans and the problem is the influences of regimes
authorities on the Chinese women social roles. In addition, to develop understanding about the influences of the regimes authorities, this study is supported with some
reviews of the social roles of Chinese women during different periods. After understanding the content of stages, the analysis about the regimes authorities and its
relation and influence on the Chinese women social roles could be analyzed. After all related reviews mentioned above were gained, the analysis of this study could be
implemented because it already had supporting theories.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents the methodology in this study. It consists of three parts, namely object, approaches, and method of the study. The first part is the object of the
study. It explains the discussion of the novel to be focused on. The second part is the approaches of the study. It discusses on the approaches to be applied in this study.
The third part is the method of the study. In this part, the procedures of gathering and arranging the data are explained in writing this study.
A. Object of the Study
The objective of the study is to explore more about women’s social roles as portrayed in the novel Jung Chang’s Wild Swans. This novel is one of the Jung
Chang’s famous works. This novel published in two editions. The first edition of this novel published in 1991 by Global Flair Ltd. The second edition published in 2003 by
Touchstone in New York. This novel won two awards; they are the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year. This novel has been translated into 30
languages and sold over 10 million copies. This study uses the second edition of the novel. Additional information about the writer added to the introduction of the 2003
edition, including author’s note, family tree, chronology, and epilogue. Overall, it consists of 28 chapters and 665 pages.
