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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liu, Judith, 1950-

Contributor:

Kelly, Donald P.

Series:

Studies in missionaries and Christianity in China.

Studies in missionaries and Christianity in China

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schools, American--China--Wuhan Shi--History--20th century.

Schools, American.

St. Hilda's School for Girls (Wuhan Shi, China)--History.

St. Hilda's School for Girls (Wuhan Shi, China).

Wakeman, Dorothea Kingsley.

Yeh, Yuanshuang.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (451 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-283-30264-0

9786613302649

1-61146-005-0

OCLC:

758390626