The following source blames the “Confucian System” for attributing “sins” to Chinese women and reveals the backwardness of Mao Zedong's ideologies. “But if China wants to resist, and even more so if it wants to advance as other nations have done, and are advancing, it must do so under the leadership of new forces. Confucianism was a power to be built and preserved. But Confucianism with its great merits has committed many "mortal sins" and will ultimately have to suffer the punishment for these sins. Confucianism as a developing force is a fading force. Sooner or later it will have to give way to something stronger, wiser and better” (North China Herald,