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Pioneer Chinese Christian women : gender, Christianity, and social mobility / edited by Jessie G. Lutz.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in missionaries and Christianity in China.
- Studies in missionaries and Christianity in China
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian women--China--History.
- Christian women.
- China--Church history.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (444 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""I Women and Gender in Imperial China""; ""Women in Imperial China: Ideal, Stereotype, Reality""; ""II Dedicated to Christ:Virgins and Confraternities""; ""Introduction""; ""Christian Women of China in the Seventeenth Century""; ""A Necessary Evil: The Contribution of Chinese “ Virgins� to the Growth of the Catholic Church in Late Qing China""; ""Child Bodies, Blessed Bodies: The Contest between Christian Virginity and Confucian Chastity""; ""Christian Virgins in Early Qing, Sichuan""; ""III Living the Christian Life""; ""Introduction""
- ""Models of Female Christians in Early Twentieth- Century China: A Historiographical Study""""Gospel and Gender: Female Christians in Chaozhou, South China""; ""Women and Christianity in Rural North Henan, 1890� 1912""; ""IV Spreading the Faith: Bible Women and Evangelists""; ""Introduction""; ""Lady Candida Xu: A Widow between Chinese and Christian Ideals""; ""Bible Women""; ""V Healing Women: Doctors and Nurses""; ""Introduction""; ""Establishing a Female Medical Elite: The Early History of the Nursing Profession in China""
- ""“To Develop Native Powers�: Shi Meiyu and the Danforth Memorial Hospital Nursing School, 1903� 1920""""VI Educating Women""; ""Introduction""; ""“Mothers to Our Country�: Conversion, Education, and Ideology among Chinese Protestant Women, 1870� 1930""; ""Chinese Nationalism and Christian Womanhood in Early Twentieth-Century China: The Story of Mary Gao ( Gao Meiyu)""; ""The Advance to Higher Learning: Power, Modernization, and the Beginnings of Women�s Education at Canton Christian College""; ""Women�s Education and Social Mobility""
- ""Beyond Missions: Christianity as a Chinese Religion in a Changing China""""Contributors""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-9823720-6-X
- OCLC:
- 647876344
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