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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822396103321

Autore

Feng Jin <1971->

Titolo

The making of a family saga : Ginling College / / Jin Feng

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009

ISBN

1-4384-2914-2

1-4416-2978-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 314 pages)

Disciplina

378.51/136

Soggetti

Christian universities and colleges - China

Community life - China - Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng) - History - 20th century

Families - China - Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng) - History - 20th century

Missions - China

Women intellectuals - China - Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)

Women - China - Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng) - Social conditions - 20th century

Women's colleges - China

Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The House of a Hundred Rooms (1915–23) -- Building These Hallowed Halls (1923–27) -- The Return of the Native Daughter (1927–37) -- Dispersion and Reunion (1937–45) -- Things Came Undone (1945–52) -- Epilogue -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The institutional history of Ginling College is arguably a family history. Ginling, a Christian, women's college in Nanjing founded by Western missionaries, saw itself as a family. The school's leaders built on the Confucian ideal to envision a feminized, Christian family—one that would spread Christianity and uplift the family that was the Chinese nation. Exploring the various incarnations of the trope of the "Ginling family," Jin Feng takes a microscopic view by emphasizing personal, subjective perspectives from the written and oral records of the



Chinese and American women who created and sustained the school. Even when using more seemingly ordinary official documents, Feng seeks to shed light on the motives and dynamic interactions that created them and the impact they had on individual lives. Using this perspective, Feng questions the standard characterization of missionary higher education as simply Western cultural imperialism to show a process of influence and cultural exchange.