在我们的历史想象中,晚清是一个前现代时期。“半殖民、半封建”这样的历史定性为我们塑造了“黑暗、腐朽和专制”这样一些关于晚清的历史经验。对于历史,我们也不能单单以社会革命来进行想象与建构。历史也是具有多重性的,单一化的叙述会抹去很多充满感性的具体的历史情形。夏晓虹教授的《晚清女性与近代中国》对于晚清女界和女学的研究,就为我们展开了另一幅晚清的历史图景。 In our historical imagination, the late Qing Dynasty was a pre-modern era. The historical qualifications such as “semi-colonialism and semi-feudalism” have shaped some historical experiences about late Qing Dynasty such as “darkness, decay and dictatorship.” For history, we can not imagine and construct social revolution alone. History is also multiplicity. A single narrative erases many specific historical situations full of sensibility. Professor Xia Xiaohong’s Late Qing Women and Modern China studied the late Qing women’s studies and female studies and launched another late Qing historical picture.