《真光初临》中的晚清潮州妇女形象

The Images of Chaozhou Women in the Late Qing Dynasty in Adele M. Fielde's Pagoda Shadows

关于19世纪的中国妇女信徒,官方教会档案中极少记载。美北浸信会(American Baptist Missionary Union)女传教士斐姑娘(Adele M.Fielde,1839—1916)在《真光初临》(Pagoda Shadows)中以16位女传道的生平自述为主体,并兼及其他妇女的记述是难得的史料。斐在潮州从事妇女工作二十余年,熟谙当地妇女的生活状态和处境。本文主要关注《真光初临》中所塑造的晚清潮州妇女形象并分析其背后的原因。

Official church archives rarely recorded anything about 19^(th) century Chinese women believers. Adele M. Fielde(1839—1916), an unmarried female missionary of the American Baptist Missionary Union, focused on 16 Chinese church women's autobiographies and other women's account in her book Pagoda Shadows, which is rare historical material. Miss Fielde had engaged in women's work in Chaozhou for more than twenty years, and was very familiar with the local women's living conditions and situations. This paper focuses on the images of Chaozhou women depicted in Pagoda Shadows and explores how and why the author constructed and presented such images.