Located in the border area at home, the garden takes in the quality of marginality, which in turn results in the garden's various paradoxes. 座落于家中的边缘地带，花园吸纳了边缘性的特质，随即导致了其多样化的吊诡性。
The case of Kang Aide is interesting because of her apparent centrality as well as her hidden marginality to various projects of modernity. 康女士这一个案的有趣之处就在于她从边缘到中心的过程，恰恰是晚清历史一个侧面的写照，从而使我们得以仔细观照一个现代神话的创造过程。
