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RWMCH
Vol.22
ISSN：
1029-4759
Date：
2013-12
Softcover：200 TWD
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Pages：
191
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Abstract：
This issue contains two articles: “Male Heads of Literati Families in Late Qing and Early Republican China: A Case Study of Zeng Guofan, Wang Kaiyun, and Tan Yankai”, by Huei-min Sun;” Sex and Reproduction in “Physiology and Hygiene” Textbooks of Post-War Taiwan”, by Jen-der Lee ; Historical Analysis: “An Actress’ Diary”,by Ya-chi wu;Scholar Notes:” The Review of ‘The Collected Master Theses and Dissertations in History in Taiwan’: With the Focus on Women’s Studies”, by Fang Qin ; Book Reviews:” Overt and Covert Treasures: Essays on the Sources for Chinese Women’s History”, by Shing-ting Lin; ” Academic Politics and Survival Strategies: Review on Ya-chen Chen’s The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism”, by Chun-mei Chuang.
Contents
Articles
Male Heads of Literati Families in Late Qing and Early Republican China: A Case Study of Zeng Guofan, Wang Kaiyun, and Tan Yankai
[Abstract]
Huei-min Sun
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This article explores how Zeng Guofan (1811-1872), Wang Kaiyun (1833-1916), and Tan Yankai (1880-1930) obtained the status and power of family head, and how they defined the boundaries of the families they governed. The three men were all natives of Changsha (a prefecture of Hunan province) and came from newly rising literati families. By scrutinizing the abundant records of family life they preserved, this article constitutes a microhistory that represents the subtle changes of the status and power of the male family head in late Qing and early Republican China.
The examination degrees conferred by the Qing government helped the young literati to enhance their status and strengthen their influence in their families. Sometimes, this challenged the authority of seniority. However, most higher degree holders had to leave their homes in the course of their official careers. They therefore could practice their patriarchal powers only on those family members who lived with them or attempt to govern the whole large family through agents.
The living lineal elders were a force for consolidating family consciousness. Influenced by Confucian ethics and with long-lived parents, Zeng Guofan, Wang Kaiyun, and Tan Yankai did their best to maintain a harmonious large family, even after the deaths of their parents. However, the complexity of the relationships in a large family and socialeconomic conditions forced them to abandon the large family ideal. This indicates that obstacles to preserving the structure and lifestyle of large families had appeared even before the anti-traditionalists began to attack the large family system during the New Culture Movement of the 1910s.
Keyword
：family history, civil examination, Hunan, father and son, succession, inheritance
Sex and Reproduction in “Physiology and Hygiene” Textbooks of Post-War Taiwan
[Abstract]
Jen-der Lee
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Taiwanese youth regularly encountered sex and reproduction in general education for the first time when the Nationalist government moved to Taiwan in 1945. Before the government took over the printing of textbooks and distributed its standard versions in 1968, different commercial companies invited scholars and specialists to write a variety of textbooks for physiology and hygiene courses, based on the curriculum guidelines issued by the Ministry of Education. These textbooks all included a chapter on the reproductive system and, with a few images, introduced to Taiwanese teenagers the development, functions, and protection of the sex organs. Unlike publications from the early twentieth century, these textbooks lost personal characteristics of the authors and were dominated by a discourse emphasizing the reproductive female body. Both the colonial fascination with perversion and Republican anxiety over masturbation gave way to menstruation, conception, and delivery, and a woman’s life was presented as passing from puberty to menopause, with a focus on gestation. Under the state policy to combat Communism and highly competitive examinations to enter high schools, earlier attention paid to sexuality of youth was in the postwar era replaced by the teaching of anatomical knowledge of reproduction.
Keyword
：Postwar Taiwan, sex education, physiology and hygiene, reproduction
Historical Analysis
“An Actress’ Diary”
Ya-chi Wu
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127
Scholar Notes
The Review of ‘The Collected Master Theses and Dissertations in History in Taiwan’: With the Focus on Women’s Studies
Fang Qin
PDF
151
Book Reviews
Overt and Covert Treasures: Essays on the Sources for Chinese Women’s History
Shing-ting Lin
PDF
169
Academic Politics and Survival Strategies: Review on Ya-chen Chen’s The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism
Chun-mei Chuang
PDF
185
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