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RWMCH
Vol. 34
ISSN：
1029-4759
Date：
2019-12
Softcover：200 TWD
Price：
未出版
Pages：
289
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0
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18 K
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Abstract：
本期為《走過五四專號（下）：婦女知識》，收學術論文三篇：衣若蘭著〈陳東原《中國婦女生活史》與「五四婦女史觀」再思〉、連玲玲著〈關於婦女的「事實」：民國時期社會調查的性別分析〉、黃相輔著〈女子需要什麼科學常識？從「人的教育」與「賢妻良母」之爭談新文化的知識觀〉，另收「論壇」導言一篇、專稿四篇：游鑑明撰〈百年來中國家庭變遷：導言〉、呂芳上著〈從「救救孩子」到「救救老人」：「五四」百年來家庭制度的變遷〉、伊慶春著〈臺灣的家庭變遷：家庭社會學者的研究關懷〉、陳昭如著〈寧靜的家庭革命，或隱身的父權轉型？論法律上婚家體制的變遷〉、黃樹民著〈五四運動與家庭制度的改變〉，及書評一篇：劉宇珍撰〈評介Rewriting Modernism: Three Women Artists in Twentieth-Century China〉。
Contents
Special Issue: Passing through the May Fourth (II): Knowledge about Women
Contents
Articles
Rethinking the “May Fourth View of Women’s History”: Social Trends and a Historiography of Chen Dongyuan’s
The History of Chinese Women’s Life
[Abstract]
Jo-lan Yi
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The History of Chinese Women’s Life
中國婦女生活史 (1928), by Chen Dongyuan 陳東原 (1902-1978), has been the most significant work on Chinese women’s history since the early Republican era. Scholars presently believe the “May Fourth view of history” found within his work sets a tone of traditional Chinese women’s oppression, which has influenced the imagination of Chinese women and women’s history. This paper attempts to investigate the academic background and social trends present during the writing of
The History of Chinese Women’s Life
from a historiographical perspective and rethink the meanings of a “May Fourth view of (women’s) history.” By examining how the knowledge of “women’s history” was “discovered,” “rewritten,” “interpreted,” and “employed” by historians of the May Fourth era as well as how it formed a view of history, the author intends to further our understanding of the historiography of May Fourth and knowledge regarding women.
Interestingly, the author has discovered both the origins of the materials used and how the work was compiled by Chen, both of which are closely related to the new historiographical trends of the May Fourth era—the “Organizing Traditional Chinese Materials” or the “Doubting Antiquity” school of thought—and the emergence of new knowledge—sociology and social surveys—as well as being connected to the women’s movements advocated by the Kuomintang (KMT) and popular fervor over women’s liberation. Moreover, the view of women’s history held by May Fourth male intellectuals can be defined as a linear progression of history. Occupying the position of being enlightened individuals, they viewed May Fourth as a point to demarcate history. Specifically, due to the utilization of the women’s collective suffering in the past to prompt women forward, the knowledge of women’s history became a tool to reform society, educate women, and reconstruct civilization. Despite women’s history not being a specific branch of academia at the time, one can note the role played by historiography and social sciences in the development of the compilation of women’s history, which became both a tool to reshape society and an important foundation for later knowledge concerning women’s history.
Keyword
：The History of Chinese Women’s Life, Chen Dongyuan, May Fourth View of Women’s History, Historiography of May Fourth, Knowledge of Women’s History
“Facts” about Women: Gender Analysis of Social Surveys in the Republican Era
[Abstract]
Ling-ling Lien
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69
This article investigates how Chinese intellectuals constructed “social facts” about women through social surveys, a research methodology that was imported to China and used to collect sources and data about local communities in the early twentieth century. Highlighted as “scientific,” social surveys became a significant way to obtain “authentic knowledge,” particularly after the New Culture Movement. As a focus of May Fourth debates, women also drew the attention of Chinese social surveyors. How were they represented in those social surveys? In what ways did the investigators portray women in Chinese society? Answering these questions will allow us to assess how the May Fourth Movement reshaped the construction of women as a source of new knowledge as well as a constituent element of Chinese society.
Keyword
：social surveys, sociology, Yenching University, production of knowledge, New Culture Movement
What Scientific Knowledge Does a Woman Need? A Debate over Women’s Education
[Abstract]
Hsiang-fu Huang
PDF
129
Women’s education in early twentieth-century China centered on the ideology of
xianqiliangmu
(wise wives, good mothers) to prepare female students for household life through domestic science. This ideology was based on the theory of physical and psychological differences between men and women that emphasized women’s natural duties of raising children and maintaining households. The New Culture Movement (c.1915-1925) challenged traditional values and stressed humanistic thinking. This trend also influenced women’s education, and some activists called for a total reform.
The Ladies Journal
(
Funüzazhi
), under the editorship of Zhang Xichen and Zhou Jianren, was a representative stronghold for advocating radical reforms in the first half of the 1920s. Inspired by the works of the Japanese writer Yosano Akiko, Zhang and Zhou promoted
rendejiaoyu
(humankind education) as opposed to
xianqiliangmu
. The objective of
rendejiaoyu
was to cultivate a whole and independent personality. Zhou’s brother Zhou Zuoren also proposed an outline of “common knowledge” in
The Ladies’ Journal
, in which he elaborated on his ideal curriculum of scientific knowledge to promote
rendejiaoyu
. Zhou Zuoren’s outline reflected a multi-layered structure: from knowledge about individual bodies, minds, and sex, to biology and human society, and on to the physical sciences and the arts. His system of knowledge also reflected a strong influence from contemporary sociological or anthropological theories such as social Darwinism and sociocultural evolution.
Keyword
：Funüzazhi, xianqiliangmu, women’s education, Yosano Akiko, Zhou Zuoren
Forum
Foreword: The Changes of the Chinese Family in a Hundred Years
Chien-ming Yu
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191
From “Saving the Children” to “Saving the Elderly”: Changes to the Family System after the May Fourth Movement
Fang-shang Lü
PDF
197
Changing Taiwanese Families: Research Concerns of Family Sociologists
Chin-Chun Yi
PDF
219
A Quiet Family Revolution or an Invisible Patriarchal Transformation? On Legal Changes to the Marriage- Family System
Chao-ju Chen
PDF
255
The May Fourth Movement and Changes in the Family System
Shu-min Huang
PDF
269
Book Reviews
Review on
Rewriting Modernism: Three Women Artists in Twentieth-Century China
Yu-jen Liu
PDF
279
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