英华书院与晚清女子教育

The Anglo-Chinese College and Women Education in Late Qing Dynasty

晚清女子教育基本发端于海外,初期与基督教会关系极为密切。英华书院迁入香港后,理雅各的妻子玛丽·莱格(Mary Legge,1816—1852)创办了英华女学校。然而,由于种种原因,具有时代意义的英华女学校所留下的文献记载和相关研究却寥寥无几。英华书院(Anglo-Chinese College)中杰出中国学生的名字都有记录,但曾经接受教育的女孩们,包括曾陪同理雅各夫妇回英国的简阿莎(Jane Asha),却几乎全部"不知所踪"。本论文将通过梳理教会档案、会议记录、书信等,寻找英华书院初创阶段中女子教育的情况,并在一定程度上重现这些在历史中被"隐身"的早期妇女教育工作者的努力。

Education for women in late Qing dynasty basically originated overseas. In the early stage, Mary Legge, James Legge's wife, established Ying Wa Girl's School, which was closely related to the Christian church. However, due to a variety of reasons, there are very few documents and relevant studies left by Ying Wa Girl's School. The names of prominent Chinese students at the Anglo-Chinese College are all on record, but almost all of the girls who received education, including Jane Asha, who accompanied the Legges back to England, are missing. This paper, by sorting out the minutes and letters of church archives and meetings, seeks for the situation of women education in the initial stage of the Anglo-Chinese College, and to some extent reconstructs the efforts of these early women educators who have been invisible in history.