| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 歷史學系碩博士班 === 101 === After the mid-nineteenth century, China went through many changes of quality and quantity in political, economic, cultural and ideological level. The women's movement in modern China also gradually expanded during this period. However, the advocates of women’s rights and autonomy mostly started by the Chinese intellectuals in the Reform Period.
During the period from Open Port to the Reformation, the conversion of many traditional values before the launch of Reformation revealed more deep mentality of intellectuals of the period. There is little discussion about women’s thoughts and gender concept of this period. Wang Tao (1828-1897),a representative of this reform period, can be regarded as an entry point for the study.
Wang Tao's lived from 1850s to 1890s. He experienced the Opium War, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, British and French forces and the Sino-Japanese war. He lived in the most modern port cities: Shanghai, Hong Kong, and went to Europe as a private citizen. He was also admired by the Japanese and invited to Japan. In addition to advocating Quo's publicist, he had once be the founder of newspapers and become a journalist. His experience was also quite special. He was wanted by the Qing Dynasty, led a slovenly private life and often lingered brothel alleys, which also represents the same period of intellectuals who were underappreciated and whose inner thought values were shocked from the West. Many of Wang Tao’s reformative thoughts tells the spirit of people-based thought. Not only he but also many of the late Qing Dynasty scholars have showed such contradictions.
This thesis is mainly about two topics: women’s images in the late nineteenth century and the gender concept of Wang Tao. Women’s images of the time was sketched out from Wang Tao’s works by observing, describing and analyzing.
Wang Tao organized the “People” spirit in the reform concept. And the study of this period concept of gender, which also are in addition to the women's movement in modern China after the opening of the port to the Restoration from before and after an advanced stage.
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