청말 ‘부엌일’의 여성 주체화와 지식정보화 — 曾懿 《中饋錄》의 출판과 담론을 중심으로 = A Study on Women’s Subjectization and Knowledge Informatization of Kitchen Work in the Late Qing Dynasty: Focusing on the Publication and Discourse of ZengYi(曾懿)’s Zhongkuilu(中饋錄)

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Zheng Yi(曾懿) was a female traditional Chinese medicine practitioner active during the late Qing Dynasty, a period marked by great confusion due to the rapid influx of Western modern civilization following the Opium Wars. In 1907, she published Zhongkuilu(中饋錄), a solo work that systematically transformed knowledge about kitchen work, a domain traditionally specific to women, into informational content aimed at female readers. This study examines the process and aspects of how kitchen work became a social discourse and modern ideology through this book. To this end, the research was conducted in two directions. First, it explored how Zheng Yi, a woman educated in traditional Confucian values within a traditional gentry family during the late Qing Dynasty, understood and responded to the influx of world powers and the contemporary situation, as well as her perception and practice of modern civilization. Second, departing from the macro perspectives and methods of the mainstream political groups’ enlightenment movements for women during the late Qing Dynasty, this study analyzed the aspects of women’s enlightenment movements during this period through kitchen work related to providing food, which is directly connected to the health and life of the family, among women’s traditional household chores.