Summary: | 碩士 === 國立清華大學 === 臺灣研究教師在職進修碩士學位班 === 104 === During 1920’s, Taiwan intellectuals who believed anarchism, formed groups to proceed to specific book reading as well as thoughts studies in succession; nonetheless due to their intense political advocates, they all ended shortly after being formed. However the ideas about freedom, equality and abdicating class oppression remained to sustain inside the lonesome soul alliance characterizing both Inagaki Fuji Hyoe and Shi Chian, and these ideas were carried out and developed within the domain of the established Home of humanity as well as Ai-ai-liou.
In 1923, Shi Chian established Ai-ai-liau to implement the idea of eradicating the existence of beggar whereas the beggar could be attributed as the weakest group among urban fringes. And Shi Chian underwent investigation and analysis to discover that the reason behind why nearly 70% of them turning into beggar was that the patients, in the then environment of suffering within poor public medical and therapeutic institutions, Ai-ai-liau was nothing but a reception institution in addition to having the function of offering medical care. Those who living inside Ai-ai-liau had to participate labor work and could learn skills through work and this was the preparation necessary to return them back to the society and act as independent human. The idea that Shi Chian eradicating the existence of beggar allowed people to have more accurate recognition through his writing, submitting for publication and establishing the Association of eradication the existence of beggar up to encompassing major cities in Taiwan to offer their assistance in eradicating the existence of beggar.
In 1916, the Japanese Inagaki Fuji Hyoe started the Daojiang Keio to serve as the educational location for poor children. Then it was expanded into Home of humanity which could be divided into social department and child department. They relied upon the thoughts of Christianity and anarchism to provide room and board as well as living protection for women, prostitutes and drifters. For patients, it provided medical care and ridding the suffering. For drifters, it provided loan to travel back to their hometown in addition to proceeding to vocational counseling for those who with the potential of labor, cultivating them into ones with labor capability so as to match-making suitable job offers to eventually return them back into the society with independent living. Other than these, he also proposed the freedom of quitting the profession and those prostitutes female could enhance their labor environment as well as living conditions.
Both Shi Chian and Inagaki Fuji Hyoe possessed people loving feeling of the religionist nevertheless they did not simply rely upon the thoughts of philanthropy to procced to social assistance enterprises. The urban fringes group that they saw made them think about how to help these people, freeing themselves from the constrained and oppressed structures, liberating themselves from the space of urban fringes. Thereby, through Ai-ai-liau and Home of humanity, with adoption, care offering and cultivating strategies toward different ethnic groups, they helped these people to transform the labor force to allow them to reacquire the freedom and equality from the civilized society.
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