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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780947103321

Titolo

Pioneer Chinese Christian women [[electronic resource] ] : gender, Christianity, and social mobility / / edited by Jessie G. Lutz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bethlehem, : Lehigh University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-9823720-6-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (444 p.)

Collana

Studies in missionaries and Christianity in China

Altri autori (Persone)

LutzJessie Gregory <1925->

Disciplina

275.1081082

Soggetti

Christian women - China - History

China Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""I Women and Gender in Imperial China""; ""Women in Imperial China: Ideal, Stereotype, Reality""; ""II Dedicated to Christ:Virgins and Confraternities""; ""Introduction""; ""Christian Women of China in the Seventeenth Century""; ""A Necessary Evil: The Contribution of Chinese “ Virgins� to the Growth of the Catholic Church in Late Qing China""; ""Child Bodies, Blessed Bodies: The Contest between Christian Virginity and Confucian Chastity""; ""Christian Virgins in Early Qing, Sichuan""; ""III Living the Christian Life""; ""Introduction""

""Models of Female Christians in Early Twentieth- Century China: A Historiographical Study""""Gospel and Gender: Female Christians in Chaozhou, South China""; ""Women and Christianity in Rural North Henan, 1890� 1912""; ""IV Spreading the Faith: Bible Women and Evangelists""; ""Introduction""; ""Lady Candida Xu: A Widow between Chinese and Christian Ideals""; ""Bible Women""; ""V Healing Women: Doctors and Nurses""; ""Introduction""; ""Establishing a Female Medical Elite: The Early History of the Nursing Profession in China""

""“To Develop Native Powers�: Shi Meiyu and the Danforth Memorial Hospital Nursing School, 1903� 1920""""VI Educating Women""; ""Introduction""; ""“Mothers to Our Country�: Conversion, Education, and Ideology among Chinese Protestant Women, 1870� 1930""; ""Chinese Nationalism and Christian Womanhood in Early Twentieth-Century China: The Story of Mary Gao (



Gao Meiyu)""; ""The Advance to Higher Learning: Power, Modernization, and the Beginnings of Women�s Education at Canton Christian College""; ""Women�s Education and Social Mobility""

""Beyond Missions: Christianity as a Chinese Religion in a Changing China""""Contributors""; ""Index""