03839nam 2200733Ia 450 991082239610332120240417033127.01-4384-2914-21-4416-2978-510.1515/9781438429144(CKB)2560000000007462(OCoLC)520925275(CaPaEBR)ebrary10574184(SSID)ssj0000340011(PQKBManifestationID)11233117(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000340011(PQKBWorkID)10387999(PQKB)11002783(MiAaPQ)EBC3407322(Au-PeEL)EBL3407322(CaPaEBR)ebr10574184(DE-B1597)684225(DE-B1597)9781438429144(EXLCZ)99256000000000746220090218h20092009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe making of a family saga Ginling College /Jin Feng1st ed.Albany :SUNY Press,2009.©20091 online resource (viii, 314 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-4384-2913-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexThe 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.Christian universities and collegesChinaCase studiesCommunity lifeChinaNanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)History20th centuryFamiliesChinaNanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)History20th centuryMissionsChinaCase studiesWomen intellectualsChinaNanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)BiographyWomenChinaNanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)Social conditions20th centuryWomen's collegesChinaCase studiesNanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China)Intellectual life20th centuryChristian universities and collegesCommunity lifeHistoryFamiliesHistoryMissionsWomen intellectualsWomenSocial conditionsWomen's colleges378.51/136Feng Jin1971-300263MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822396103321The making of a family saga4061219UNINA