東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

The East in the Light of the West : = American Missionary Women and Women's Higher Education in China, 1908-1952.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The East in the Light of the West :/
Reminder of title:	American Missionary Women and Women's Higher Education in China, 1908-1952.
Author:	Su, Limin.
Description:	1 online resource (205 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-04A.
Subject:	Education history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27994993click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798672160979

The East in the Light of the West : = American Missionary Women and Women's Higher Education in China, 1908-1952.
Su, Limin.

The East in the Light of the West :American Missionary Women and Women's Higher Education in China, 1908-1952. - 1 online resource (205 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Iowa, 2020.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation focuses on the experiences and stories of American missionary women and Chinese women at Ginling College and Hwa Nan College in the first half of the twentieth century in China, aiming to reconstruct the international and intercultural interactions between American and Chinese women whose stories have received insufficient attention in educational history and missionary history. Many historians of missionary work have tended to look at missionaries in China as cultural imperialists and to consider missionary women as carriers of not only Christian messages but also the Victorian ideal of womanhood. A close examination of missionary women's experiences at Ginling and Hwa Nan, as well as their interactions with Chinese women, provided a slightly different interpretation of the intercultural interaction. Although they highlighted Christian ideals regarding women's roles, missionary women's progressive educational philosophy and expansive views on women's abilities and responsibilities enabled them to transform the ideology of domesticity into a means to enhancing women's power and influence. In response to the gender and educational ideals of missionary women, Ginling and Hwa Nan students strategically adopted certain values while they discarded others. They inherited and applied American women's progressive educational philosophy through rigorous academic learning and intellectual pursuits, and active involvement in social service programs and diverse extracurricular activities, while, at the same time, extending the notion of ideal Christian womanhood through actively participating in social and political movements. Both American women and Chinese women appropriated and made use of the dominant narratives of women's domesticity to push forward a progressive educational agenda which broadened women's spheres of influence. In addition, Chinese women's agency revised the notion of American missionary women as cultural imperialists.Rather than a traditional institutional history, the dissertation frames individual stories of women's agency and cooperation within Ginling College and Hwa Nan College against the changing social and political contexts in China from 1908 to 1952, revealing the uneasy coexistence of and struggles between Western Christianity and Chinese nationalism, and the complex and the intertwining patriarchal, colonial, and cultural ideologies that had shaped educated women's experiences.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798672160979Subjects--Topical Terms:

3171959
Education history.
Subjects--Index Terms:

history of educationIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

The East in the Light of the West : = American Missionary Women and Women's Higher Education in China, 1908-1952.
LDR:03825nmm a2200373K 4500 001 2365000
005 20231213130512.5
006 m o d
007 cr mn ---uuuuu
008 241011s2020 xx obm 000 0 eng d
020 $a 9798672160979
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI27994993
035 $a AAI27994993
040 $a MiAaPQ $b eng $c MiAaPQ $d NTU
100 1 $a Su, Limin. $3 3705824
245 1 4 $a The East in the Light of the West : $b American Missionary Women and Women's Higher Education in China, 1908-1952.
264 0 $c 2020
300 $a 1 online resource (205 pages)
336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 $a computer $b c $2 rdamedia
338 $a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-04, Section: A.
500 $a Advisor: Ogren, Christine A.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Iowa, 2020.
504 $a Includes bibliographical references
520 $a This dissertation focuses on the experiences and stories of American missionary women and Chinese women at Ginling College and Hwa Nan College in the first half of the twentieth century in China, aiming to reconstruct the international and intercultural interactions between American and Chinese women whose stories have received insufficient attention in educational history and missionary history. Many historians of missionary work have tended to look at missionaries in China as cultural imperialists and to consider missionary women as carriers of not only Christian messages but also the Victorian ideal of womanhood. A close examination of missionary women's experiences at Ginling and Hwa Nan, as well as their interactions with Chinese women, provided a slightly different interpretation of the intercultural interaction. Although they highlighted Christian ideals regarding women's roles, missionary women's progressive educational philosophy and expansive views on women's abilities and responsibilities enabled them to transform the ideology of domesticity into a means to enhancing women's power and influence. In response to the gender and educational ideals of missionary women, Ginling and Hwa Nan students strategically adopted certain values while they discarded others. They inherited and applied American women's progressive educational philosophy through rigorous academic learning and intellectual pursuits, and active involvement in social service programs and diverse extracurricular activities, while, at the same time, extending the notion of ideal Christian womanhood through actively participating in social and political movements. Both American women and Chinese women appropriated and made use of the dominant narratives of women's domesticity to push forward a progressive educational agenda which broadened women's spheres of influence. In addition, Chinese women's agency revised the notion of American missionary women as cultural imperialists.Rather than a traditional institutional history, the dissertation frames individual stories of women's agency and cooperation within Ginling College and Hwa Nan College against the changing social and political contexts in China from 1908 to 1952, revealing the uneasy coexistence of and struggles between Western Christianity and Chinese nationalism, and the complex and the intertwining patriarchal, colonial, and cultural ideologies that had shaped educated women's experiences.
533 $a Electronic reproduction. $b Ann Arbor, Mich. : $c ProQuest, $d 2023
538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web
650 4 $a Education history. $3 3171959
650 4 $a Religious history. $3 2122824
650 4 $a Womens studies. $3 2122688
653 $a history of education
653 $a missionaries in China
653 $a women's higher education
655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 lcsh $3 542853
690 $a 0520
690 $a 0453
690 $a 0320
710 2 $a ProQuest Information and Learning Co. $3 783688
710 2 $a The University of Iowa. $b Educational Policy & Leadership Studies. $3 1672190
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 82-04A.
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27994993 $z click for full text (PQDT)