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The making of a family saga : Ginling College / Jin Feng.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feng, Jin, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ginling College (Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China)--History.
- Ginling College (Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China).
- Women's colleges--China--Case studies.
- Women's colleges.
- Missions--China--Case studies.
- Missions.
- Christian universities and colleges--China--Case studies.
- Christian universities and colleges.
- Community life.
- History.
- Families.
- Women intellectuals.
- Women.
- Social conditions.
- China.
- China--Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng).
- Women--China--Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Women intellectuals--China--Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)--Biography.
- Ginling College (Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China)--Biography.
- Families--China--Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)--History--20th century.
- Community life--China--Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)--History--20th century.
- Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China).
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 314 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Ginling College
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : SUNY Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The House of a Hundred Rooms (1915-23) 26
- Setting and Dramatis Personae 27
- The House of a Hundred Rooms 34
- We Had a Dream 41
- Creation of the Family Discourse 48
- Implementation of the Family Discourse: Initial Negotiations 51
- Student Compositions: The Kingdom of God in China 61
- Chapter 2 Building These Hallowed Halls (1923-27) 67
- The New Ginling Home 68
- Training Her Body for God or for China: PE at Ginling (I) 76
- Femininity, Christianity, and Nationalism: PE at Ginling (II) 89
- Awakening to Rising Conflicts 97
- Chapter 3 The Return of the Native Daughter (1927-37) 111
- The Tempest of 1927 113
- Mother and Daughter 123
- Cooperation, Equality, and Power: Ginling's Battle for Independence in the 1920s 136
- Dissent, Squabble, and Unrest: "Family" Life in the 1920s to 1930s 158
- Chapter 4 Dispersion and Reunion (1937-45) 170
- The Nanjing Massacre: 1937-38 172
- Sharing the Fate of the National Family (I): Adventures of the Ginling Family in Exile 181
- Sharing the Fate of the National Family (II): Curricular Adjustments 190
- Head of the Family in the War 199
- Heaven or Hell? The Two Sides of the War Story 207
- Chapter 5 Things Came Undone (1945-52) 215
- Homecoming 216
- Disintegration and Countermeasures at Postwar Ginling 219
- Regime Change and the End 226.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438429137
- 1438429134
- OCLC:
- 311263005
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