自鸦片战争以降,伴随着欧风美雨的浸入,现代助产知识传入中国。传教士在华创办的教会医院,最先开现代助产教育之风,也培养了现代中国最早的一批助产士。这种采用传统“学徒式”的培训方法传授现代助产知识的做法,也标志着助产教育的萌芽。至20世纪初,中国最早的助产学校在广州诞生。此后,广州助产学校经历了初创——遭挫——发展的曲折历程。一、困境中突围——现代广州接生法及助产学校的兴起在中国历史上,传宗接代被看作是衡量女性自身价值的一个重要标准,故而生育活动备受瞩目。然而,传统中国并没有专门培训助产人才的学校, Since the Opium War, with the European rain immersed the United States, modern midwifery knowledge into China. Missionaries founded in China by missionaries first opened the door to midwifery education and also trained a batch of the earliest midwives in modern China. The practice of using traditional “apprenticeship” training methods to teach modern midwifery knowledge also marks the embryo of midwifery education. By the early 20th century, China’s earliest midwifery school was born in Guangzhou. Since then, Guangzhou midwifery experienced a tortuous course of starting-frustration-development. I. Breakthrough in Difficulty - The Emergence of Modern Birth and Midwifery School In China’s history, the successor to matriculation was regarded as an important criterion for measuring the value of women themselves. As a result, reproductive activities attracted much attention. However, there is no school in traditional China that specializes in midwifery training.