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From Women in Taiwan’s History of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to Recent Case Studies of Gender Practice Under the Academic Glass Ceiling

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The glass ceiling that women encountered in Taiwan’s traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has remained chiefly unchallenged, with only a few individual women’s exceptional success in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Even in the twenty-first century, most of Taiwan’s prominent TCM experts and scholars of Taiwanese history are ignorant of or resistant to the significant value of women in Taiwan’s TCM history as well as in women’s studies, gender studies, and sexology.

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  1. Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Jaung-gong Lin & Ya-chen Chen

  2. China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Ya-chen Chen

  3. Examination Yuan, Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

    Liang-wen Tsai

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Appendices

Appendix 1

The following information was provided by Liu Yanyi (劉沿佚Liu Yen-i) at the Human Resource Office of China Medical University to Lin Zhaogeng (林昭庚Lin Jaung-geng) in early summer 2016.

Appendix 2

Google Records about Wu Huaqing’s son Xu Tingxi as a participant in the classical Chinese Music Orchestra Club of National Taiwan University

吳華清之子徐廷西就讀台灣大學期間曾經參加台灣大學國樂社的谷歌郵件紀錄

  • https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ntucmc/IMOEs6qYnc8 (website retrieved in August 2016)

  • From: C.Y.

  • Date: Wed, May 30, 2012

  • Dear Professor Mau (茅聲燾),

  • Welcome to our 薰風校友 (NTU Chinese Music Club Alumni) group!

  • 抱歉! 很久沒有講中文, 打中文也是打了半天才弄上一句…

  • 希望您不介意我用英文與您溝通 (如果方便, 請您盡量用中文與我溝通:-)

  • We are so happy to reconnect with you (see the following email from Prof. Uang 汪家銘)! I will introduce you to everyone and add you as a member of our Google Email Group & Shutterfly photo-sharing group soon (see P.S.). Please reply to me with the following information (and any other story/information and/or any old or recent photos you would like to share with everyone): What year did you graduate from NTU & what’s your major? In this email, I also Cc: (抄送副本) some of old friends 「薰風老友 」 you may know (so you may communicate with them directly): 瞿海源(1967心理, 1963–64社長), 黃國師, 陳裕剛, 王正平, 陳仲桐, 趙秦育(1969動物), 周鳳丹, 陳端安, 張華克, Ken Chang (張慶麟 - “台大薰風榮譽校友”,南胡), etc. Also attached is a scan of a list of 「薰風老友 」handwritten by Prof. Chen (陳裕剛) during one of our Taipei reunions. Below are some comments Professor Chen made (about this list) at our Shutterfly website:

  • 打圈者:比瞿海源高一二屆 [note: 瞿海源(1967心理, 1963–64社長)] 半框者:與瞿海源同屆;其餘比瞿海源低一二屆。…茅聲燾高我二三屆,是我的琵琶啟蒙老師,隨孫培章不定時學習琵琶,回來後轉教我,等王正平就讀台大後,我轉向王正平學習他從香港帶來的許多小曲, 大曲…張鴻仁為指揮,當時(民國五十四年乎?)好像在彰化八卦山大佛下參加比賽。其中一曲是王沛綸的《靈山梵音》。那一年好像是楊光中當社長。可以問黃國師或陳仲桐。徐廷西在高雄繼承母業當中醫,四十餘年未再聯絡;劉宛然, 張玉花在花蓮,我有聯絡;羅正平(太太也是國樂社同學,一時忘了名字,罪過之至), 馮篤銘在馬來西亞,久未聯絡,王正平也許知道;林豐和在高雄,與羅業勤, 謝清佳, 范碧玉常有聯絡,謝, 范二人為「中國樂刊」最實際之工作小組人員之一,一切雜務都靠她們,黃國師筆名「萊昂」,筆法犀利,重要的主筆之一。徐龍曾隨錢思亮校長訪韓演奏古箏(這是我聽來的,可請沈冬順便查證);。李芳綿高一屆的揚琴學姐,接下來是李小林彈揚琴;潘榮培, 王靜華是古箏組,蘇世明好像也是;葉靖亞拉中胡,我民國六十年左右隨「山東古樂團」(由梁在平老師帶領,一行八人)赴美演出,到葉的學校,與葉一同通宵影印相關資料攜回,後來葉回國,似在東吳或東海任教,一直沒有聯絡。謝傳剛也拉中胡,是李小林的先生。石堅從香港來,文質彬彬,精三弦,目前應在香港吧?唐麗華(南胡)數年前回臺,最近好像又離臺了。林衡一(南胡)畢業後沒聯絡。其餘各人,尚待大家幫忙尋找了。謹此奉告大家。[請幫忙記起 您當時的社長 &指揮?]

  • (1961–1962) 社長?; 指揮?

  • (1962–1963) 社長黃展南; 指揮?

  • (1963–1964) 社長瞿海源; 指揮?

  • (1964–1965) 社長唐麗華?;指揮?

  • (1965–1966) 社長楊光中?; 指揮? ç張鴻仁 (1965–1966指揮?)

  • (1966–1967) 社長?; 指揮? <- 石堅? (196?–196?社長)

  • (1967–1968) 社長?; 指揮? <-謝傳剛 (196?–196?社長, 中胡,是李小林的先生)

  • (1968–1969) 社長?; 指揮?

  • (1969–1970) 社長?; 指揮?  <- (陳仲桐社長??) 陳仲桐(政治1970, 揚琴, 社長19??–19??)

  • (1970–1971),社長?,指揮?

  • (1971–1972),團長俞鳳嬌?,指揮王正平? <=== ***(won the 1st place in the group national competition)

  • (1972–1973),團長?,指揮?

  • (1973–1974),團長張華克?,指揮張華克?…

  • Looking forward to hearing from you!…

  • P.S.

  • To: Prof. Chen (陳裕剛)

  • Can you forward this email to 劉宛然 &張玉花 (and Cc: me)? I would like to invite them to join our group. Thanks! [ Notes]薰風校友在臺聯絡人: 石佳相

  • Current 薰風指導老師: 沈冬Upon receiving your reply, I will add you to our groups. You should receive invitation emails soon from our Google Email Group & our Shutterfly (photo-sharing) site.

Appendix 3

  • 衛生福利部 函

  • 檔號:

  • 係存年限:

  • 受文者:陳雅湞博士

  • 發文日期:中華民國 105年6月 1 日

  • 發文字號:衛部醫字第 1051663905 號

  • 速別:普通件

  • 密等及解密條件或保密期限:

  • 附件:

  • 機關地址: 11558台北市南港區忠孝東路 6段488

  • 傳真: (02)85907087

  • 聯絡人及電話:王咪咪 (02)85907413

  • 電子郵件信箱: md2834@mohw. gov. tw

  • 主旨: 所請提供每年通過中醫師考試之男女比例, 女性中醫師姓名及第一位女中醫師等資料一案。,復如說明,請查照

  • 一, 復台端105年5月20日(本部收件日)致本部醫事司函辦理。

  • 二, 經查本部醫事管理系統,39年到104年12月31日止,中醫師領證人數為1萬3,065人。至於每年通過中醫師考試之男女比例,本部並無該類分析資料。又依據「個人資料保護法」相關規定,本部歉難提供女性中醫師姓名及第一位女中醫師等資料。

  • 正本:陳雅潰博士

  • 副本:

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Lin, Jg., Tsai, Lw., Chen, Yc. (2018). From Women in Taiwan’s History of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to Recent Case Studies of Gender Practice Under the Academic Glass Ceiling. In: Chen, Yc. (eds) (En)Gendering Taiwan. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63219-3_9

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