# Kang, *One-World Philosophy*, 1958 > [!cite] > Kang Yuwei. *Ta T’ung Shu. The One-World Philosophy of K’ang Yu-wei.* Translated from the Chinese with Introduction and Notes by Laurance G. Thompson. London: Allen & Unwin, 1958. --- ‘Now, when we consider the earliest societies, it is certain that it was women, and not men, who discovered and originated all of the arts and crafts of civilization. This is because the men were hunters, who had no time to sit at home, thinking, and finding new methods to do things. So it must have been the women, who stayed at home, who originated such technique as cooking, agriculture, house-building, weaving, silk-making, cloth-weaving—and including the fine arts, music and writing—while men were still brutes who spent all their time and energies in the hunt.’ [[Kang, One-World Philosophy, trans. Thompson, 1958|(Kang 1958, 155)]] ^bc8eae ‘This situation is summed up by the saying: “Marry a chicken, follow a chicken; marry a dog, follow a dog.” It is a system in which women are imprisoned and punished, and treated like slaves and playthings.’ [[Kang, One-World Philosophy, trans. Thompson, 1958|(Kang 1958, 153)]] ^6d905b