There is no denying that the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party under Chairman Mao Zedong changed the course of China's history and shaped the China the world sees today . The amount of diverse lives, cultural traditions and intellectual thoughts that were lost and destroyed as he sought to achieve his goals for the country can never be recovered or replaced. However, it has been argued that one of Chairman Mao's most positive effects on the Chinese people was his somewhat radical view of women. Before the Communist Revolution, women's roles in Chinese society were almost completely limited to domestic life and focused on family support and submission to fathers and husbands. Chairman Mao realized that women were one of the oppressed groups in China that could be used to increase his control over the country. While women's rights still have a long way to go, it can certainly be said that some of Mao's policies advanced Chinese women in ways that would have been unimaginable before his rise to leadership. The most relevant questions concern Chairman Mao's intentions behind these policies and whether they were doomed to fail from the start due to the cultural and political climate in 20th century China. It can also be argued that the political activities of Chairman Mao's Communist China were more of a continuation of traditional imperial China, strongly based on Confucian values, rather than a new type of Marxist-Leninist China, based on the Soviet Union as an archetype. While it is indisputable that a Marxist-Leninist political structure was present in China at that time, Confucian values ​​still had to be reinforced through rituals and were a key part of Chinese communism… middle of paper… .oist China.” Gender and History 18, n. 3 (November 2006): 574-593. EBSCOhost. Accessed 4 October 2015. Kazuko, Ono. "Chinese Women in a Century of Revolution, 1850-1950". edited by Joshua A. Fogel, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989.Zheng, Wang. “Maoism, Feminism, and the United Nations Conference on Women: Research on Women's Studies in Contemporary China.” Journal of Women's History 8, no. 4 (Winter 1997): 126-152. Muse of the project. Accessed 14 October 2015. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jowh/summary/v008/8.4.zheng01.html.Zheng, Wang. “'State feminism'? Gender and the formation of the socialist state in Maoist China”. Feminist Studies 31, no. 3 (Fall 2005): 519-551. JSTOR. Accessed 14 October 2015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20459044.Zhong, Xueping, Zheng Wang, and Bai Di. Some of us: Chinese women who grew up in the Mao era. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001.