来华传教士对近代中国妇女问题的关注

On the Women Problems of Modern China in the View of Protestant Missionaries in China

来华的基督教各教派,几乎都经过宗教改革和资产阶级革命的洗礼。资产阶级自由、平等观念使得他们对中国近代妇女问题表现出极大的热情。他们不仅广泛宣传兴办女学和废除缠足等男女平等思想,而且还将这些主张付诸于实践。这些活动,对近代妇女运动起到了一定的启蒙、示范作用;当然,囿于"布道"的宗旨,来华传教士对妇女问题的关注行为,也具有一定的局限性。

Various sects of Christianity coming to China, almost all of them had received baptisms of modern Reformation and bourgeois revolutionary. The Christianity, which was embodied by the conceptions of liberty and egalitarianism of bourgeoisie, made them have great interest in the women problems in modern Chinese history. They applied newspapers and magazines to widely propagate the idea of equality of opportunity for men and women, such as setting up Women education and abolishing anti-foot-bonding. What was more important, they also put those pioneer ideas into practice and established an organization of unaffected foot and missionary women school. The actions played an enlightening and demonstrating role in promoting the women movement in modern history. However, incarcerated in the purpose of preach, there was a certain limitation in the attentions to the women problems of Protestant missionaries in China