著者

辜 知愚

出版者

奈良女子大学大学院人間文化研究科

雑誌

人間文化研究科年報 (ISSN:09132201)

巻号頁・発行日

no.34, pp.13-22, 2019-03-31

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This paper investigated Buwei Yang Chao(1889-1981)'s narration in Autobiography of a Chinese Woman about people in her original family. Buwei Yang Chao's grandfather Yang Wenhui was a lay Buddhist reformer, and also an enlightened intellectual. Buwei Yang Chao was adopted by her uncle who is the brother of her birth father, and grew up with four parents in an extended family of traditional Chinese style. In this book, her grandfather and adoptive father are expressed as her enlightener and supporter, when her birth mother and adoptive mother are expressed as powerless traditional Chinese women. It considers that Buwei Yang Chao aimed to represent herself as a modern individual, which is linked to her grandfather and adoptive father's field of modern value. Furthermore, she shows Yang Wenhui's image as a person with "new thought" in the end of Qing dynasty, rather than a Buddhist, even though he was known as "The Father of the Modern Buddhist Renaissance". Also, she shows her adoptive father's image as a person who educated her as the same way as a boy, and except her to become a citizen who can serve the society. However, she tells that she failed to meet the expectations of her father, for she became a housewife but not serving the society. This narration means that the image of a modern citizen was modeled by male, therefore as a" Father's Daughter", she had to recognize herself inferior to the field which she identified with.