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

• Autore: Feng Jin <1971->
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 314 pages)
• Disciplina: 378.51/136
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) Intellectual life 20th century
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Ginling College
• Titolo autorizzato: The making of a family saga
• ISBN: 1-4384-2914-2; 1-4416-2978-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822396103321
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