Doris Chang - Womens Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan

DORIS T. CHANG

URBANA AND CHICAGO

2009 by the Board of Trustees

of the University of Illinois

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This book is printed on acid-free paper.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Chang, Doris T., 1969

Womens movements in twentieth-century Taiwan / Doris T. Chang.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-252-03395-7 (cloth : alk. paper)

1. WomenTaiwanHistory20th century.

2. WomenTaiwanSocial conditions20th century.

3. Womens rightsTaiwan.

4. FeminismTaiwan.

5. Feminist theoryTaiwan.

I. Title.

HQ1777.C43 2009

305.42095124'9dc22 2008035914

Acknowledgments

I wish to thank the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange for the Visiting Fellowship to Taiwan in the summer of 2006. I also wish to express my sincere gratitude to Chung Shu-min and Hsu Hsueh-chih of the Institute of Taiwan History for inviting me to conduct research at Academia Sinica. I am really grateful to Yu Chien-ming of Academia Sinica and Lin Wei-hung of National Taiwan University for providing me with copies of their work. I also would like to acknowledge Lee Yuanchen, Yu Mei-n, Huang Chang-ling, Tseng Chao-nuan, Sun Ruei-suei, and Fan Yun of the Awakening Foundation for updating me with important information about the autonomous womens movement in postmartial law Taiwan.

Special thanks to James Bartholomew and Christopher A. Reed of The Ohio State University, Leila Rupp of the University of California at Santa Barbara, and both reviewers of this manuscript for providing me with valuable suggestions for its improvement. I would like to acknowledge the editors of the University of Illinois Press, Laurie Matheson, Rebecca Crist, Angela Burton, and Phyllis Brashler, for supporting this research project and working with me toward its completion. I also wish to thank Kristie Bixby for copyediting my manuscript and my colleagues at the Center for Womens Studies and Religion for offering me guidance and support since I joined the faculty of Wichita State University in 2003. I am especially indebted to James Ho of Wichita State University and Grace Lin of National Taiwan University for introducing me to scholars and feminist leaders in Taiwan. In addition, I would like to acknowledge Denny Roy. My chronology of Taiwans history is based on a modification of the Chronology of Major Events in his book Taiwan: A Political History.

Lastly, I dedicate this book to my parents, Philip and Susan Chang, my sister, Amelia Chang Wright, and my best friend, Karen DaSilva, who has been my kindred spirit since our days in high school. Without the unconditional love and strong support of my parents over the years, the completion of this manuscript would not have been possible.

Chronology of Taiwans History