The Question of Hu showed lot interactions between Chinese and Europeans in the early eighteenth century, most of them are about the religion and the trades. Because many missionaries like Father Jean-François Foucquet came to China and persuaded people be drawn into their religion. There was more and more Chinese follower, including the main character Hu, one of the followers. “Hu’s devotion to the Christian faith, moreover, is well known and of long standing.... At his baptism Hu took the name of John, in homage to Father John Laureati, and when his son was born he had him, too, baptized, as Gaspar, in honor of Gaspar Castner.” (Chapter2, Departure, 1721.9.30) This paragraph illustrates how a devout believer he is and it is a kind of example
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In the ancient China, there was a widely accepted view that “Man is superior to woman”. And The Confucian, a dominated idea in 18th’ China, thought that women were yin, men were yang and maintaining a physical separation between the worlds of men and the worlds of women was viewed as an important first step toward assuring that yin would not dominate yang. So women are men contact as less as they could. Though Hu was a Christian, he still followed this separation and believed it in mind. While in European society, men maintained a superior legal position and imposed traditional notions of patrimony, but men and women were not separated which was unaccepted for Hu. I think this was the most possible reason for him to act following two things. First, in Chapter 4 Fall Out (1722.8.29), “He refuses to eat with Renault’s housekeeper. He will not allow her near him. He makes faces at her, and gestures her away, or simply turns his back whenever she appears. At each meal, he does the same. Finally, his meals are served to him alone, in a room she does not enter.” This housekeeper had been working for a long time and she was around fifty years old. At that time Hu was 41. This housekeeper was more like an elder for him but he could not accept it. Maybe he was too strong-headed to change his obsolete
In the ancient China, there was a widely accepted view that “Man is superior to woman”. And The Confucian, a dominated idea in 18th’ China, thought that women were yin, men were yang and maintaining a physical separation between the worlds of men and the worlds of women was viewed as an important first step toward assuring that yin would not dominate yang. So women are men contact as less as they could. Though Hu was a Christian, he still followed this separation and believed it in mind. While in European society, men maintained a superior legal position and imposed traditional notions of patrimony, but men and women were not separated which was unaccepted for Hu. I think this was the most possible reason for him to act following two things. First, in Chapter 4 Fall Out (1722.8.29), “He refuses to eat with Renault’s housekeeper. He will not allow her near him. He makes faces at her, and gestures her away, or simply turns his back whenever she appears. At each meal, he does the same. Finally, his meals are served to him alone, in a room she does not enter.” This housekeeper had been working for a long time and she was around fifty years old. At that time Hu was 41. This housekeeper was more like an elder for him but he could not accept it. Maybe he was too strong-headed to change his obsolete