Haunted Modernities: Gender, Memory, and Placemaking in Postindustrial Taiwan
Dr. Anru Lee, "Haunted Modernities: Gender, Memory, and Placemaking in Postindustrial Taiwan"
English | ISBN: 0824895541 | 2023 | 246 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 0824895541 | 2023 | 246 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In 1973 twenty-five young women drowned in a ferry accident on their way to work in factories in Taiwan’s Kaohsiung Export Processing Zone. Their remains were recovered and interred collectively in what came to be called the Twenty-five Maiden Ladies Tomb. Without a husband’s ancestral hall where they would have been laid to rest, the spirits of these unmarried women were considered homeless and possibly vengeful, and so the Maiden Ladies Tomb was viewed as a place to be avoided―especially by young men traveling alone, fearful of encountering a female ghost searching for a husband. Over the years, numerous plans were made to revamp the tomb site; finally, in 2008, at the urging of local feminist communities, the Kaohsiung City government renovated the Twenty-five Maiden Ladies Tomb and renamed it the Memorial Park for Women Laborers.
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