Min Jiayin

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Min Jiayin is a Professor of Sociology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She is also the Editor in Chief of The Chalice and the Blade in Chinese Culture: Gender Relations and Social Models.

Based on the work of Riane Eisler, Chalice was published in 1995 by the Chinese Partnership Research Group. Professor Min Jiayin, who holds a Master of Arts Degree in Philosophy, is a research fellow and Deputy Director of the Section of Marxist Philosophic Principles of the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a member of the International Research Group of General Evolution and a consulting editor of World Futures, the journal of the group. Major works include Evolutionary Plurialism and the Cultural Circle of Chinese Characters. Professor Min was humiliated and underwent extreme treatment during Mao's Cultural Revolution. The Chalice and the Blade in Chinese Culture was written jointly by scholars of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and other academic institutes. It is a systematic study and exploration of the historical changes in relations between men and women and of women's status in Chinese society.