Pioneer Chinese Christian women : gender, Christianity, and social mobility /

Pioneer Chinese Christian women : gender, Christianity, and social mobility / [print] edited by Jessie G. Lutz. - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania : Lehigh University Press, (c)2010. - 444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Studies in missionaries and Christianity in China . - Studies in missionaries and Christianity in China. .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Women in imperial China: ideal, stereotype, and reality 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 Confucial chastity Christian virgins in early Qing, Sichuan Models of female Christians in early twentieth-century China: historiographical study Gospel and gender: female Christians in Chaozhou, South China Women and Christianity in rural north Henan, 1890-1912 / Margo S. Gewurtz -- Lady Candida Xu: a widow between Chinese and Christian ideals Bible women 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 "Mothers to our country": 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) / M. Cristina Zaccarini -- 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 Jessie G. Lutz -- Gail King -- R.G. Tiedemann -- Eugenion Menegon -- Robert Entenmann -- Peter Chen-Main Wang -- Joseph Tse-Hei Lee -- Claudia von Collani -- Ling Oi Ki -- John R. Stanley -- Connie Shemo -- Ryan Dunch -- Dong Wang -- Jessie G. Lutz -- Jessie G. Lutz.



9780980149685 9781611460612

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Christian women--History.--China

BR1285.L975.P566 2010 BR1285