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題 名 | The Great (Surrogate) Mother of the West: The Genealogy of Masculinity in Yung Wing's My Life in China and America |
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作 者 | Feng,Jin; | 書刊名 | Tamkang Review |
卷 期 | 35:1 民93.秋 |
頁 次 | 頁57-78 |
分類號 | 782.87 |
關鍵詞 | Yung Wing; Gender; Autobiography; Chinese American; Education; Cultural interaction; Chinese modernity; History; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | Yung Wing (1828-1912) was the first Chinese national to graduate from an American institute of higher education. His autobiography, My Life in China and America (1909), has continued to provoke controversy regarding its political and cultural significance. Although most Chinese scholars consider it the record of a pioneering patriot in the promotion of Western education for Chinese modernization, Chinese-Americans have often derided it as a “fake” success story devoid of racial consciousness. Here I will analyze Yung's strategy of adopting, from a marginalized position, a 19th -century New England middle-class masculinity to gain political and moral capital. Yung created his own genealogy, one showing how he moved from dependence on a “naïve, weak, and passive” natural mother to dependence on “scientific, independent, and progressive” surrogate American parents. However, his uncritical adoption of an “American Protestant masculinity” contributed to his marginalization in lateQing Chinese society, and ultimately a failed political career. Yung attempted to transplant American gender stereotypes in China, but failed to address traditional Chinese gender politics. This new (Westernized, Christianized) masculinity asserted by his autobiography is finally ambivalent if not unintelligible, when set in a cultural context that could not absorb it. Yung's invented genealogy of masculinity ultimately rendered him blind and impotent within a cultural matrix founded on a different kind of gender politics. |
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