Abstract
From the perspective of political theory, Confucian philosophers regarded the family and certain personal relations, the cardinal relations, as primary institutions structuring Chinese society.' Although the five cardinal relations included three from the family, the relation of mother and son was not one of them.2 This relation was not unimportant and it was not overlooked, but still, in many cases, it was not even implied by those identified as cardinal.
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