Much Ado About Mother- A Neglected Incubator of the Chinese Renaissance Man, Dr. Shih Hu
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Sung, Tzu-Hsuan
Abstract
This is not only a story of Dr. Shih Hu (胡適) and his mother, but also a motherhood study in Modern China. Hardly anyone would doubt Dr. Shih Hu’s contribution to the development of the Renaissance China. However, few people realize that his almost illiterate and widowed mother, Shun-Di Feng (馮順弟), is the most important person to make who he is. If we want to do research about Shih Hu, we need to unveil his mother’s life story first. o reproduce the mother-son relationship is the goal of this thesis because Shun-Di Feng has been neglected by Hu’s researchers for decades. In the following chapters, I will show why the situation for a widowed mother was difficult at that time. The tricky part is, the widow identity empowered her to manage the Hu’s family and her originated one. Besides, the hardship also enhanced her kinship with her son. She insisted to give Shih Hu the best education, which is different to her value in various aspects. Constant conflicts are inevitable, but in the end we found that the Columbia University Ph.D. inherited her tradition value. try to rethink the motherhood concept in Modern China and embodied it as the noun “Mu Qin Zhi Xu” (「母親秩序」). It illustrates how a mother manages her family and the social network to form and maintain her “Motherhood.” In Hu’s story and in many contemporaries’ stories, “fortunately” having a son is the foundation of doing it. hrough this path, we can find that there is much to do about mother!
Subjects
Modern China
motherhood
uterine family
widow
Type
thesis
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