According to Hsing Yi-tien, a specialist in the history of the Qin and Han periods at the Academia Sinica's Institute of History and Philology, "In a country like China, with its belief in the mutually complementary nature of the yin and the yang, the idea that women should be subservient to men in all things has never held complete sway."
「中國在陰陽相輔相成的理念間架下，絕對化的男女尊卑關係並不存在」，專門研究秦漢史的中研院史語所研究員邢義田也指出。