중국 근대 국어 교과서에 나타난 여성상 —청말민초 소학교 국어 교과서를 중심으로

Abstract

The images of women in modern Chinese language textbooks in China show that they have developed from the ‘wise mother, good wife’(賢母良妻) to the Women Students, Nuguomin(女國民). And the pace of evolution is very fast. The three kinds of Chinese textbooks covered in this paper deserve to represent women’s images of early modern education, and have the following characteristics. The 1901 textbook contains the Chinese people’s desire to leap from traditional to modern education. The 1907 textbook is an early female textbook that shows the image of a woman recognized by the time. The 1914 textbook describes the women’s image during the revolutionary era that women’s social roles should be fully expanded after the republic’s inauguration. This paper used the “role analysis” method to more effectively compare the appearance of women appearing in each textbook. A woman’s story is divided into four elements: the main character, space, role and counterpart. Using this method, the authors of textbooks can understand the intended female image more clearly. As modernization progresses, the space, roles, and types of people who appear in textbooks vary. The characteristic of women in textbooks during this period is to develop from incidental to self-reliant. From being limited to a woman who raised her child and helped her husband, it develops into a general who defeats the rebels. The women’s image in modern Chinese textbooks has changed from ‘Chinese Substance and Western Function’ (中體西用) to Zhongxibingyong in both its content and its formal aspects.