Beijing's courtyard there is a hierarchy, is the patriarchal system.

北京的四合院是有等级的，是家长制的。

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It was the extension of the patriarchal system to the entire nation.

这是延长了家长制，以整个国家。

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This was necessary to keep up the patriarchal system and to provide for ancestral worship in after years.

这是需要保留了家长制，并提供祭祖，在经过多年。

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It was encouraged during the American occupation in the belief that such Western ways might promote democracy and erode the patriarchal household system.

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Concluding that the wife was driven mad by domestic abuse, they plot to make absolutely sure of her acquittal by secretly destroying the evidence: the patriarchal legal system, they believe, is not fit to judge a woman.

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