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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feng, Jin, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian universities and colleges--China--Case studies.

Christian universities and colleges.

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

Community life.

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

Families.

Missions--China--Case studies.

Missions.

Women intellectuals--China--Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)--Biography.

Women intellectuals.

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

Women.

Women's colleges--China--Case studies.

Women's colleges.

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

Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China).

Ginling College (Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China)--Biography.

Ginling College (Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China).

Ginling College (Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 314 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Ginling College

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438429144

1438429142

9781441629784

1441629785

OCLC:

520925275