Abstract:As an old commercial street in Guangzhou,the Gaodijie gathered a large number of salt merchants in the mid-late Qing Dynasty. In a batch of contracts signed in the late Qing Dynasty reflected buying and selling situation of the estate, there are some records about women involved in the transaction. By analysis on the contents of the contract, the women played an important role in the family transaction as "the buyer", "the seller" and " the intermediary ", and had very high status in society, which reflected that, in a certain extent, the initiative of women's economic consciousness gradually increased in the traditional social system male dominated.
张启龙, 徐哲. 被动的主动:清末广州高第街妇女权利与地位研究——以契约文书为例[J]. 妇女研究论丛, 2015, 0(2): 96-105.
ZHANG Qi-long, XU Zhe. Passive and Active: Study about Rights and Status of Women in Guangzhou Gaodijie in Late Qing Dynasty——Taking Contracts as Examples. , 2015, 0(2): 96-105.