Science and Gender – Woman mathematician Fighter, Hsu, Dao Ning
Yng-Jaw JIING Weitsy WANG
2015
Taiwan
Documentary
color
73min
Mandarin
DCP
This is the story about Taiwan's pioneer woman mathematician, HSU Dao-Ning. Being the first woman doctor of mathematics in Taiwan, she dedicated her life to mathematics education. Through her meticulous memory, self-statements, and interviews of her relatives and students, the film outlined her whole life and tried to exemplified that how her unique femininity, intelligence, personality and ambition, were all devoted into the education of technology and personality in Taiwan.
WANG: After entering middle age, teaching, research and service have occupied all of my valuable time. It is a great pleasure for me to begin a project of my own with the support of The Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan. I enjoyed doing the interview, writing planning, producing, and to pick up the camera, make my own films. It is also the immense grace for me to be able to do the biography for an old surviving elderly and tell a fascinating story of a women scientist.
JIING: Filming this documentary, it is truly for me a rare and valuable experience. Ninety-two-year-old teacher HSU, with emaciated body, wrapped inside her is spirit of fortitude. She not only was the teacher of her generation, but also the teacher of our generation. By shooting her and understand her through the filming process, I witnessed a great mind of a woman about that era.
