| 词条 | Tai tai |
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| pic = Shogi ag44.png | pic2 = Shogi ag44.png | piccap2 = Also spelled taitai,[1] tai-tai, or taai taai. | c = 太太 | p = Tàitài | y = Taaitáai | j = Taai3taai2 }}Tai tai (太太) is a Chinese colloquial term for an elected leader-wife or head-wife of a multi-wife (polygynous / sister-wife) family; or a wealthy married woman who does not work.[2] It is the same as the Cantonese title for a married woman.[3] It has the same euphemistic value as "lady" in English: sometimes flattery, sometimes subtle insult.{{citation needed|date=October 2015}} One author describes it as equivalent to the English term "ladies who lunch".[4] Cultural significanceBy the time of the May Fourth Movement in 1919, the term had come to imply a wife who was "dependent on her newly rising bourgeois husband" for her consumerist lifestyle, and Chinese feminists and "new women" of that era tried to disassociate themselves from the term precisely for that reason.[1] The term has become well-known, and features in Western discussions in the field of Women's studies.[5] Pearl Buck uses the term to describe Madame Liang in her novel, Three Daughters of Madame Liang.[6] References1. ^1 {{cite book|author=Wang Zheng|title=Women in the Chinese Enlightenment|publisher=University of California Press|year=1999|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=tFMEdEJVx4cC&pg=PA20 20]}} {{vocab-stub}}2. ^{{cite book |author=Sylvie Phillips |title=Tai Tai Tales |publisher=Bangkok Books |location= |year=2005 |pages= |isbn=974-93100-3-9 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0EGDO__EaZIC&pg=PA6&dq=%22tai+tai%22&hl=en&ei=2Ws-TZ7hBNOr4Abg3siuCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false}} 3. ^{{cite book |author=Price, Fiona L. |title=Success with Asian Names: A Practical Guide for Business and Everyday life |publisher=Nicholas Brealey Publishing |location=London |year=2007 |pages= |isbn=1-85788-378-0 |oclc= |doi= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-FRIYcHARa0C&pg=PA74&dq=%22tai+tai%22+cantonese+mrs&hl=en&ei=4G0-TeziMJDr4Ab64OGzCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22tai%20tai%22%20cantonese%20mrs&f=false}} 4. ^{{cite news|url=http://blog.seattlepi.com/redlantern/2008/08/06/are-you-a-tai-tai/|first=Elizabeth|last=Kain|title=Are you a Tai Tai?|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|date=6 August 2008|accessdate=30 September 2015}} 5. ^{{cite book |author1=Radosh, Alice |author2=Maglin, Nan Bauer |title=Women confronting retirement: a nontraditional guide |publisher=Rutgers University Press |location=New Brunswick, N.J |year=2003 |pages= |isbn=0-8135-3126-8 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}} 6. ^Buck, Three Daughters of Madame Liang. London: Moyer Bell, 1969. 1 : Chinese words and phrases |
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