Priscilla Ching Chung

Historical Developments of the Roles and Status of Women in China

The role of a person is not static. Changes in roles and status are due to the needs, culture, the value of the times, and foreign influences. Dr. Chung will address the causes of the historical development of women’s role and status in China. She will address the influences that might have caused women to change from being warriors in ancient times to the submissive and subservient women with bound feet.

Women, Politics and Society in Traditional China

Dr. Priscilla Ching-Chung received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977 and is currently an associate of the Department of History at the University of Hawaii. Long active in Asian-American and Women studies, Dr. Ching-Chung is particularly qualified to speak on this topic of past and current significance. She is presently a member of President Carter’s Commission on Language and International Studies.