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. 座落于家中的邊緣地帶，花園吸納了邊緣性的特質，隨即導致了其多樣化的吊詭性。
The case of Kang Aide is interesting because of her apparent centrality as well as her hidden marginality to various projects of modernity. 康女士這一個案的有趣之處就在于她從邊緣到中心的過程，恰恰是晚清歷史一個側面的寫照，從而使我們得以仔細觀照一個現代神話的創造過程。