Pioneer Chinese Christian women : gender, Christianity, and social mobility / edited by Jessie G. Lutz.

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Other Authors: Lutz, Jessie Gregory, 1925-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, ©2010.
Series:Studies in missionaries and Christianity in China.
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Table of Contents:
  • Women in imperial China: ideal, stereotype, and reality / Jessie G. Lutz
  • Christian women of China in the seventeenth century / Gail King
  • A necessary evil: the contribution of Chinese "virgins" to the growth of the Catholic Church in late Qing China / R.G. Tiedemann
  • Child bodies, blessed bodies: the contest between Christian virginity and Confucial chastity / Eugenion Menegon
  • Christian virgins in early Qing, Sichuan / Robert Entenmann
  • Models of female Christians in early twentieth-century China: historiographical study / Peter Chen-Main Wang
  • Gospel and gender: female Christians in Chaozhou, South China / Joseph Tse-Hei Lee
  • Women and Christianity in rural north Henan, 1890-1912 / Margo S. Gewurtz
  • Lady Candida Xu: a widow between Chinese and Christian ideals / Claudia von Collani
  • Bible women / Ling Oi Ki
  • Establishing a female medical elite: the early history of the nursing profession in China / John R. Stanley
  • "To develop native powers": Shi Meiyu and the Danforth Memorial Hospital Nursing School, 1903-1920 / Connie Shemo
  • "Mothers to our country": education and ideology among Chinese Protestant women, 1870-1930 / Ryan Dunch
  • Chinese nationalism and Christian womanhood in early twentieth-century China: the story of Mary Gao (Gao Meiyu) / M. Cristina Zaccarini
  • The advance to higher learning: power, modernization, and the beginnings of women's education at Canton Christian College / Dong Wang
  • Women's education and social mobility / Jessie G. Lutz
  • Beyond missions: Christianity as a Chinese religion in a changing China / Jessie G. Lutz.