近代中国女学的地域分布极不平衡 ,无论从数量还是从人数来看 ,都主要集中在沿海和长江中下游地区 ,内陆和西部边疆地区相对较少。这是近代以来外国教会势力扩张方向、东西部社会经济发展水平和各地政策差异的生动反映 The geographical distribution of Chinese women’s studies in modern China is extremely unbalanced. Both in terms of quantity and number of people, the study mainly focuses on the coastal areas and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, with relatively few inland and western frontiers. This is a vivid reflection of the direction in which the expansion of foreign church forces in modern times, the level of socio-economic development in the eastern and western regions and the policy differences across the country