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RWMCH
Vol. 46
ISSN：
1029-4759
Date：
2025-12
Softcover：200 TWD
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219
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Abstract：
This issue contains three articles: “A Japanese Female Teacher’s View on Chinese Domestic Science in Hattori Shigeko’s
Qingguo Jiating Ji Xuetang Yong Jiazheng Xue
,” by Chou Hsu-Chi; “Silent Grief and Protest: Female Voice and Affective Politics in the 1957 Liu Ziran Incident through the Lens of Liu Aotehua,” by Wen Zhen-Wen; “Party Propaganda and Women’s Service: Institutional Operations and Local Practices of the Women’s Propaganda Network in 1950s Taiwan,” by Lan Syuan-You; Book Reviews: “Book Review on
Breaking Free from Cocoons: Female-Centered Discourses on Eros in and beyond Republican China (1912–1949)
” by Lois Lu Hao.
Contents
Articles
A Japanese Female Teacher’s View on Chinese Domestic Science in Hattori Shigeko’s
Qingguo Jiating Ji Xuetang Yong Jiazheng Xue
[Abstract]
Chou Hsu-Chi
PDF
1
Qingguo jiating ji xuetang yong jiazheng xue
清國家庭及學堂用家政學(
Applied Domestic Science for the Home and School in the Qing State
), was compiled by the Japanese teacher Hattori Shigeko 服部繁子(1872–1952) based on her lecture notes from Yujiao Girls' School in Beijing. This work touts its applicability to the Qing dynasty and advocates a home economics approach that combines “traditional Chinese learning” with “modern knowledge.” Her “traditional Chinese learning,” however, does not refer to Chinese women’s education, namely
nüjiao
女教, but rather a Confucianism that emphasizes propriety and filial piety that carries a uniquely Japanese perspective: it focuses on reshaping the norms of “male superiority and female inferiority,” “modern knowledge” introduces a substantial amount of “physiology” and scientific knowledge on hygiene. The work also discusses the social interactions between high-society socialites and foreigners, Western dining etiquette, and related topics. These features different completely from Zeng Jifen’s 曾紀芬(1852–1942)
Nie shi chongbian jiazheng xue
聶氏重編家政學(
Domestic Science as Recompiled by Née Nie
), which emphasizes “suitability for China.” The latter focuses more on the pursuit of moral character by the head of the household based on traditional family precepts, the lofty authority of the “domestic bursar”內政總理, and “health preservation” method of the yin-yang and the five elements theories in traditional Chinese medicine.
The discussions in Hattori’s work regarding home economics and “women’s rights” are likewise noteworthy as they highlight that under the shared definition of “home economics,” namely
jiazheng
家政, in China and Japan, the gender relations presented differ due to the differences in the status of women in these respective nations. In this regard, one may ask whether “home economics,” and “women’s rights” were mutually exclusive or mutually supportive? Hattori’s promotion of new education for women was an important part of the women’s liberation movement in the Qing dynasty in which she called on Chinese women to value domestic affairs to gain people’s “respect” and advocated the idea of “female inferiority,” thereby confining women to the home. During the same period, Chinese reformers and female journalists declared that women could contribute to the state and the family through home economics, but this new role was only a starting point that did not hinder women from participating in public affairs, or from striving for equality within the social system. They even reminded textbook translators to note the fact that Japanese women’s rights were the most detrimental in the world, so as not to disseminate the “poison” of Japanese women’s education.
Keyword
：Hattori Shigeko, domestic science, home economics, housewife, women’s rights, Japanese female teacher
Silent Grief and Protest: Female Voice and Affective Politics in the 1957 Liu Ziran Incident through the Lens of Liu Aotehua
[Abstract]
Wen Zhen-Wen
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69
The 1957 “Liu Ziran Incident” stands as a pivotal case symbolizing sovereign inequality and judicial imbalance in U.S.–Taiwan relations during the Cold War. When U.S. Army Sergeant Robert G. Reynolds(?–?) shot and killed Liu Ziran 劉自然（1924-1957）, a citizen of the Republic of China, in Taipei and was later acquitted by a US. military court, the verdict sparked public outrage and the May 24 Incident. Yet within historical narratives, the voice of the victim’s widow, Liu Aotehua 劉奧特華（?–?）, has long been marginalized.
Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of affective politics and gender performativity, the present article explores how Liu Aotehua transformed private grief into acts of public resistance through crying, petitioning, and hunger strikes. By reconstructing relevant historical materials, the study argues that Liu’s sorrow was not merely an emotional response but an ethical questioning of judicial injustice and national humiliation under the Cold War order. Her body and emotions became a visible political text—exposing the oppression of both state and imperial power while revealing the agency of women as historical actors.
At the same time, the media’s representation of her mourning reflected the affective governance of Cold War Taiwan: women’s grief was aestheticized as a moral symbol yet depoliticized in meaning. This article contends that Liu Aotehua’s tears functioned as both protest and testimony. Her “spectacularized sorrow” unveils the suppressed sense of justice and the historical potential of female voices within the Cold War structure—turning grief itself into an ethical language of historical intervention.
Keyword
：Liu Ziran Incident, May 24 incident, Liu Aotehua, affective politics, gender performativity, Cold War Taiwan
Party Propaganda and Women’s Service: Institutional Operations and Local Practices of the Women’s Propaganda Network in 1950s Taiwan
[Abstract]
Lan Syuan-You
PDF
131
The present article examines the Women’s Propaganda Network 婦女宣傳網 established by the Kuomintang （KMT） Women’s Working Committee in 1950s Taiwan, analyzing its institutional development and local operation within the broader structures of the party-state and patriarchal society. Drawing on party archives, newspapers, grassroots contributions—namely written submissions , instructional materials, and oral histories, the study reconstructs how the network translated anti-communist propaganda into domestic routines and community services. Under limited resources, it relied on local women’s voluntary labor, personal networks, bodily presentation, and maternal authority to disseminate political messages in everyday settings.
The analysis shows that the network functioned both as an instrument of party-state penetration and as a channel for women’s entry into civic life. Cases such as local elections and the August 7 Floods （八七水災） of 1959 reveal how it consolidated KMT grassroots support while reinforcing gendered expectations of unpaid service and contributing to the emergence of a “women’s vote.” The network thus illuminates the localized and gendered modalities of Cold War mobilization in Taiwan.
Keyword
：KMT Women’s Working Committee, Women’s Propaganda Network, voluntary women cadres, political propaganda, community service
Book Review
Book Review on
Breaking Free from Cocoons: Female-Centered Discourses on Eros in and beyond Republican China (1912–1949)
Lois Lu Hao
PDF
209
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