Foreign exchange : counterculture behind the walls of St. Hilda's School for Girls, 1929-1937 / / Judith Liu ; with appendixes by Donald P. Kelly

• Autore: Liu Judith <1950->
• Pubblicazione: Bethlehem [Pa.], : Lehigh University Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (451 pages)
• Disciplina: 373.51/212
• Soggetto topico: Schools, American - China - Wuhan Shi - History - 20th century
• Altri autori: KellyDonald P
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Yeh Yuanshuang -- Dorothea Kingsley Wakeman -- St. Hilda's School for Girls -- Yeh Yuanshuang at St. Hilda's School for Girls -- Dorothea and the "saints" -- Into the West -- Appendix A: a Chinese context -- Appendix B: an American context.
• Sommario/riassunto: Foreign Exchange is the story of two women and their experiences at an American Episcopalian missionary school in Wuhan St. Hilda's School for Girls from 1929-1937. Yeh Yuanshuang was a student from a privileged Chinese family; Dorothea Kingsley Wakeman was a short-term teacher from a privileged American family. Both would be transformed by their experiences at St. Hilda's whose walls served to protect the school from outside danger as well as to help create a space where new gender expectations could be nurtured, hidden away from the gaze of prying eyes. Examining St. Hilda's through the expe
• Titolo autorizzato: Foreign exchange
• ISBN: 1-283-30264-0; 9786613302649; 1-61146-005-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820083903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in missionaries and Christianity in China.