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RWMCH
Vol. 21
ISSN：
1029-4759
Date：
2013-6
Softcover：200 TWD
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181
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Abstract：
This issue contains three articles: “Lower-Class Women and Their Natal Families during the Qing Period: A Study Based on the Nanbu County Archive”, by Li-ping Mao;” Latecomer Advantage in Colonial Taiwan: State-Regulated Prostitution and the Case of Hualian”, by Jungwon Jin;” Gender Democracy and Self-Identity: Two Autobiographies by Women Participants in Taiwan’s Dang-wai Movement”, by Shu-chun Li ; Introduction to Historical Materials:” Methods for Wife-Management”, by Chien-ming Yu; Book Reviews:” Keeping the Nation’s House: Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China”, Ling-ling Lien.
Contents
Editor’s Note
Articles
Lower-Class Women and Their Natal Families during the Qing Period: A Study Based on the Nanbu County Archive
[Abstract]
Li-ping Mao
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The outpouring of research on women and gender in China in recent years has changed the way scholars understand the relationship between women and their natal families. These scholarly endeavors have focused primarily, if not exclusively, on the upper classes, and have revealed that married women maintained close ties to their natal homes. Relying on the files of 124 legal cases from Nanbu County in Sichuan Province, this article investigates the role of the natal family in lower-class women’s life strategies in Qing China. This article interrogates the relationships between lower-class women and their natal families. Is “spilt water” an appropriate metaphor to describe married women’s lives? What factors affected the relationship? How did such relationships differ from those of the upper and middle classes? To answer thesequestions, this article examines several issues. First, women’s daily contact with their natal families and the impact of those contacts on their marriages; second, the important role played by natal families in the crisis and collapse of a woman’s marriage; and third, the family bonds and benefits that marked the relationship between lower-class women and their natal families.
Keyword
：spilt water, lower-class women, natal families, Nanbu County Archive
Latecomer Advantage in Colonial Taiwan: State-Regulated Prostitution and the Case of Hualian
[Abstract]
Jungwon Jin
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Under the Japanese colonial rule of Taiwan, sixteen entertainment districts were established. Generally known as “yūkaku,” these were red-light districts where state-regulated prostitution operated. While authorized by the colonial regime, their routine operations were supervised and regulated by local authorities. For this reason, it is difficult to assess the role of state regulation on legalized prostitution in colonial Taiwan. However, it is certain that the lack of state-wide regulation inevitably facilitated the creation heterogeneity among the yūkaku, allowing them to flourish in different ways.
This article investigates the reasons why the brothel business, which was transplanted via the colonial power, used different methods to meet different needs, and how the interactions between local powers and regional society influenced the formation and survival of the various yūkaku, using the yūkaku of Hualian as a primary example. This study furthers our knowledge of state-regulated
Keyword
：yūkaku(red-light district), kashizashiki (brothel), shiku kaisei (city planning), migrant village, Taroko Battle, kokō chōsabo (Taiwan colonial household register census), harbor construction, Chōsenru (Korean brothel), zenshakukin (loan)
Gender Democracy and Self-Identity: Two Autobiographies by Women Participants in Taiwan’s Dang-wai Movement
[Abstract]
Shu-chun Li
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This article focuses on autobiographies written by Yang Zujun (楊祖珺) and Qiu Ruisui (邱瑞穗), female participants in Taiwan’s Dang-Wai movement or “non-Party” opposition to the Guomindang. They wrote their autobiographies in 1990s to recall their political experiences. In their memoirs, they criticized democratic deficiencies of the Dang-wai movement, criticizing the inadequacy of the overall process of democratic modernization. In global democracy development, political issues are usually regarded as more important than gender issues or women’s emancipation, which are treated as secondary issues to be dealt with after political democracy is achieved. Yang and Qiu not only criticized Guomindang power but also the patriarchy of the anti-Guomindang democracy movement that they personally experienced. In the 1990s, Yang and Qiu got divorced from their husbands. Before their divorces, Yang and Qiu supported their husbands’ participation in the Dang-wai movement, and, given the importance of their husbands in the movement, could not express different views. However, they could speak out for themselves after their divorces, and in the 1990s diverse voices could be accepted. Yang and Qiu criticized their own previously “wifely selves” from the viewpoint of their new “today’s selves,” as their memoirs negotiated the complexities of their gender and political roles. Divorce thus led to a stronger sense of self-identity. Their autobiographies reveal their support for the dream of political democracy of the Dang-wai movement; at the same time, however, they criticize the democratic deficiencies of the movement itself from the 1970s. These autobiographies thus produce complex anti-Guomindang and anti-patriarchy discourses.
Keyword
：Dang-wai women, autobiography, gender democracy, identity, Dang-wai movement
Introduction to Historical Materials
Methods for Wife-Management
Chien-ming Yu
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163
Book Reviews
Keeping the Nation’s House: Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China
Ling-ling Lien
PDF
171
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