Christian women in Chinese society : the Anglican story / edited by Wai Ching Angela Wong and Patricia P.K. Chiu.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / Wai Ching Angela Wong and Patricia P.K. Chiu -- part I. Cross-cultural partnership. The study of Chinese women and the Anglican Church in cross-cultural perspective / Kwok Pui-lan -- "A nation cannot rise above its women" : the social gospel at St. Hilda's School for Girls, Wuchang, China, 1929-1937 / Judith Liu -- The making of Bible women in the Fujian Zenana Mission from the late 1880s to the 1950s / Zhou Yun -- part II. Women and ordained ministry. Deaconesses in the South China Missions of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), 1922-1951 / Peter Cunich -- The ordination and ministry of Li Tim Oi : a historical perspective on a single event / Philip L. Wickeri -- A distinctive Chinese contribution : the ordination of the first five women priests in Chung hua Sheng Kung hui / Wai Ching Angela Wong -- part III. Life histories. The Wolfe sisters of Foochow, China : born to evangelize / Frances Slater -- Zhan Aimei (1874-1943) : an ordinary woman in extraordinary times / Jennifer R. Lin -- The social contributions of a Chinese Anglican woman intellectual : the life and work of Kuo Siu-may / Chen Riuwen -- part IV. Serving the community. A study of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui Women's Missionary Service League in the 1930s and 1940s : drawn from reports of the fourth to seventh WMSL conferences / Duan Qi -- Anglican women and social service in Hong Kong : historical contributions and continuing legacy / Jane Lee.

Christian Women in Chinese Society: The Anglican Story expands on the long-standing debates about whether Christianity is a collaborator in or a liberating force against the oppressive patriarchal culture for women in Asia. Women have played an important role in the history of Chinese Christianity, but their contributions have yet to receive due recognition, partly because of the complexities arising out of the historical tension between Western imperialism and Chinese patriarchy. Single women missionaries and missionary spouses in the nineteenth century set the early examples of what women could do to spread the Gospel, yet they might not have intended to instill the same free spirit into their Chinese converts. The education provided to Chinese women by missionaries was expected to turn them into good wives and mothers, but knowledge empowered the students, allowing them to become full participants not only in the Church but also in the wider society. Together, the Western female missionaries and the Chinese women whom they trained explored their newfound freedom and tried out their roles with the help of each other. These developments culminated in the ordination of Florence Li Tim Oi to priesthood in 1944, a singular event that fundamentally changed the history of the Anglican Communion. At the heart of this collection lies the rich experience of those women, both Chinese and Western, who devoted their lives to the propagation of Anglicanism across different regions of mainland China and Hong Kong. Contributors make the most of the sources to reconstruct their voices and present sympathetic accounts of these remarkable women's achievements.

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