Susan Mann work in writing the Talented Women of the Zhang Family gives todays readers insights to the potential of changing domestic life in nineteenth century China. Though Mann’s book was clearly not around then for women to read or to help build the modern women in society, it is still important to incorporate into this essay. Mann’s work from the writing left behind from the Zhang family, though told through stories interested through Mann, proves that traditional practices done by women were changing and where being excepted by men. The women from the stories left behind and compiled by Mann are well talented, bright women who push back against the oppressive social norms of the times. These stories show how the modern women was developing