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RWMCH
Vol. 26
ISSN：
1029-4759
Date：
2015-12
Softcover：200 TWD
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Pages：
210
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Abstract：
本期收學術論文三篇：吳方正著〈女性與博覽會：以1907年兩場展覽為例〉、姜鍾赫著〈鼠疫與香港殖民醫學下的華人女性病患(1841-1900)〉、廖小菁著〈神龕上的祖姑婆：何仙姑信仰與泛珠三角地區的女性崇拜〉；及演講一篇：賀蕭(Gail Hershatter)著‧高曉飛譯〈中國農村婦女經歷過革命嗎？今天還剩下什麼？〉。
Contents
Articles
Women and Exhibitions: A Case Study of Two Exhibitions in 1907
[Abstract]
Fang-cheng Wu
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Systems of gender roles have long constituted one of the institutions that contribute to the stability of society. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Chinese society underwent a major reconstruction of gender roles. This article aims neither to investigate a more or less vague awakening of female consciousness, nor to list the political claims made for gender equality, but rather highlights those institutions that incited Chinese women to play a more active role in society, even unconsciously. This article focuses on a new type of public activity in which visibility was sine qua non: exhibitions. Two exhibitions held in 1907 are examined here. The first is the First Australian Exhibition of Woman’s Work at Melbourne, in which China participated. The second is the International Fancy Fair and Fête at Shanghai, which mobilized the international community of women in the Settlement. Both exhibitions shared the particularity of having been exclusively of and by women, at least in principle. China’s response revealed the intention of incorporating women into a national productive force, without being fully aware of the repercussions on women’s social status. China’s participation offered an opportunity for women to gain a larger social space, and consequently to question the older system of gender roles.
Keyword
：gender roles, institutions, exhibitions, Australian Exhibition of Woman’s Work, International Fancy Fair and Fête
Bubonic Plague, Western Medicine, and Women: Female Chinese Patients and Colonial Medicine in Hong Kong (1841-1900)
[Abstract]
David J. Kang
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In May 1894 when the bubonic plague broke out in Hong Kong, the colonial government was forced to provide health care for the Chinese in order to protect the European community and the trading activities of the colony. The outbreak thus became an important turning point in Hong Kong’s medical history, also influencing female Chinese patients’ healing practices, despite the fact that Western medical science had not discovered an effective treatment for bubonic plague. This article examines different ways female Chinese patients accessed Western medicine during the plague outbreak. According to the official statistics, the mortality rate of female Chinese plague patients was higher than that of their male counterparts. Nonetheless, the colonial government continued to disregard these female patients and refused to actively provide appropriate measures for them to access Western medicine and to approach foreign male doctors. When investigating and cleansing Chinese homes, officials failed to realize the significance of female plague patients even after disturbing the lives of Chinese women and challenging their caretaking roles. On the other hand, when the Chinese in the colony were willing to try various treatment methods during emergencies, some female Chinese patients made contact with Western medicine. While the British colonial government disregarded female Chinese patients, medical missionaries actively approached Chinese women for the sake of evangelism. Missionary hospitals implemented various measures in order to attract female patients, such as recruiting and training Chinese nurses; these nurses made important contributions during the plague outbreak. In addition, the Chinese Tung Wah Hospital was forced to provide Western medicine under government regulation during the outbreak, hence becoming another important venue for Chinese women in the colony to access Western medical treatment.
Keyword
：women’s health care, history of Hong Kong, bubonic plague, colonial medicine
Great-Aunts Worshiped in Shrines: The Goddess He Xiangu Cult and Female Worship in the Greater Pearl River Delta Region
[Abstract]
Hsiao-ching Liao
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Resistance to marriage is a significant theme found often in the legends of Chinese female deities. Based on ananalysis of the Goddess He Xiangu (Transcendent Maiden He) cult in Zengcheng, Guangdong and paternal great-aunt worship in the Greater Pearl River Delta—both examples of cults centering on unmarried females—this article shows that female resistance to marriage was widely accepted and practiced in the regional custom. Before the Ming-Qing period, not only was this practice considered normative, but such women were even promoted as deities or family ancestresses. Furthermore, while the lineage system became socially dominant in the Ming-Qing period, the anti-marriage females found in early local or family legends had been transformed into a specific kind of lineage ancestress—the “great-aunt.” Lineage groups appropriated the ancestral worship dedicated to such figures unmarried women, previous studies have generally interpreted female marriage resistanceas opposition to the Chinese patrilineal-virilocal social structure. However, investigation into the unmarried female cult in the Greater Pearl River Delta region reveals that as well as being seen as potentially threatening to the patrilineal social order, the practice of female marriage resistance was also often viewed as supportive of this same social order. Depending on the specific community’s choices and procedures, unmarried women represented either polluting or deified symbolic powers, were seen to either threaten or support the established social order, and were positioned socially either at the periphery or the center.
Keyword
：marriage resistance, goddess, ancestress, great-aunt, lineage
Speech
Did Rural Chinese Women Have a Revolution? If So, What Remains?
Gail Hershatter
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193
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