游鉴明,《达动场内外：近代华朹地区的女子体育(1895-1937)》.pdfVIP

中央研究院近代史研究所集刊 第 69 期（民國99 年9月），171-175 ©中央研究院近代史研究所 游鑑明，《運動場內外：近代華東地區的女子體育(1895-1937) 》 台北：中央研究院近代史研究所，2009 。431 頁。  Andrew Morris Over the last fifteen years, Dr. Yu Chien-ming 游鑑明 has emerged as likely the most important historian of early twentieth-century Chinese and Taiwanese women’s physical culture and physical education (體育). This 431tome focusing on women’s physical culture in Eastern China during the late Qing and Republican eras confirms Yu’s status and represents an impressive amount of research into this topic. Yu cites a very wide array of primary sources, including newspapers, magazines, memoirs and school publications; it is clear that she left very few stones unturned in her research for this volume. The book begins by citing the narrative of Taiwan’s national “humiliation” at the 2008 Olympic Games, formed by repeated apologies to the nation made by disappointed male athletes. Yu then contrasts this with the comments made by the Taiwanese female taekwondo competitor Su Liwen 蘇麗文, who, following her loss in the bronze medal round that year, stated only that she had let down her family (pp. 1-2). This contrast between the national orientation, even obsession, of Chinese men’s physical culture ever since the early twentieth century and the relative lack of this factor in the world of Chinese women’s physical culture is one of the main themes  Professor, History Department, California Polytechnic State University -171- 近代史研究所集刊 第六十九期 of Yu’s work. She states clearly (pp. 5-6, 20) that she wants to move away from the idea of the nation as the guiding force in t