30 Charles Ettner number are women. It is, therefore, unfortunate that little has been written on gender in Chinese language. As a partial remedy, in this chapter several informative examples will be discussed which reflect extant male-dominant social attitudes embedded in Chinese idiomatic phrases and terms of address and reference, the Chinese writing system (graph/character composition), and Chinese syntax. Herein, the language phenomena discussed are situated in the sociopolitical context of contemporary mainland China’s fifty years of socialist history, its associated language reforms and language planning projects, emphasizing successes and failures with regard to the socialist task of leveling the social position or social status of Chinese women as compared to men. An overview of certain relevant features of Chinese language precedes the topic discussions.