By Hugh Baker, Pui-Kei Ho
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The title mingshi exemplifies the status-based system of identity that was a perennial feature of the social landscape of imperial China. The word’s first component, ming (name, fame), signified the recognition a person was accorded by others, and the second component, shi (scholar), had its origins in the hierarchy of the ancient Four Estates of civil servants (shi), farmers, craftsmen, and merchants. With the fall of the empire in 1911 the edifice that supported the old status system also collapsed.
By 1898, the school’s girls were no longer binding their feet. 31. , 96–98. 32. Little, Blue Gown, 289. 33. Fanon cited in Bhabha, ‘‘Other Question,’’ 23. 40 ANGELA ZITO 34. Bhabha, ‘‘Other Question,’’ 32. 35. Callaway, ‘‘Dressing’’; Ware, Beyond the Pale, 127. 36. Ware, Beyond the Pale, 128. 37. On class differences see Records of the General Conference of the Protestant Missionaries of China Held at Shanghai, May 10–24, 1877, 133, 137. As her anti-footbinding movement grew, Mrs. ’’ Intimate China, 163.
24 The treaty port world of China was an all-male preserve until the nineteenth century, when wives and unmarried women missionaries arrived. But even then, foreigners rarely met Chinese wives or single female servants. So the absent ‘‘Chinese Woman’’ became the object of desire, an absence to be conjured as a possible missing link in the divine plan for conversion. 25 And only women could breach Chinese family walls to penetrate the very ground of everyday life. There they could proselytize heathen mothers, reaching them because they shared fundamental concerns and attributes as women.