The Ywca In China

Author : Elizabeth A. Littell-Lamb
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774869232

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The YWCA in China by Elizabeth A. Littell-Lamb Pdf

The YWCA arrived in China as a cultural interloper in 1899. How did activist Christian Chinese women maintain their identity and social relevance through the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century? The YWCA in China explores how the Young Women’s Christian Association responded to the needs of Chinese women and society both before and after the 1949 revolution ushered in a communist state. Western secretaries originally defined the Chinese YWCA movement, but successive generations of Chinese leadership localized its Western-defined organizational ethos. Over time, "the Y" became class conscious and progressive as Chinese women transformed it from a vehicle for moral and material uplift to an instrument for social action and an organizational citizen of China. And after 1949, national YWCA leaders supported the Maoist regime because they believed the social goals of the YWCA aligned with Mao’s revolutionary aims. The YWCA in China is a fascinating investigation of the lives, thinking, and action of women whose varied forms of Christian and Chinese identity were buffeted by historical events that moulded their social philosophies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0774869216

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The YWCA in China by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mrs. Kenneth Woodsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Christians
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080547420

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"What about Christians in China?" - the YWCA by Mrs. Kenneth Woodsworth Pdf

Author : Robin Porter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315483474

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Industrial Reformers in Republican China by Robin Porter Pdf

This is the story of a dedicated group of foreign and Chinese reformers who tried, but failed, to solve China's intractable industrial problems over the three decades prior to 1949. It explores the complex rivalries of Chinese and foreigners against a backdrop of extreme nationalism.

Author : Garrett L. Washington
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004369108

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Christianity and the Modern Woman in East Asia by Garrett L. Washington Pdf

These chapters examine pathbreaking East Asian women who mobilized Christian beliefs, knowledge, institutions, and networks between 1880 and 1945 to raise the profile of “The Woman Question,” frame the contours of the related debate, and craft original responses.

Author : R. G. Tiedemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315497327

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Reference Guide to Christian Missionary Societies in China: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century by R. G. Tiedemann Pdf

This comprehensive guide will facilitate scholarly research concerning the history of Christianity in China as well as the wider Sino-Western cultural encounter. It will assist scholars in their search for material on the anthropological, educational, medical, scientific, social, political, and religious dimensions of the missionary presence in China prior to 1950.The guide contains nearly five hundred entries identifying both Roman Catholic and Protestant missionary sending agencies and related religious congregations. Each entry includes the organization's name in English, followed by its Chinese name, country of origin, and denominational affiliation. Special attention has been paid to identifying the many small, lesser-known groups that arrived in China during the early decades of the twentieth century. In addition, a special category of the as yet little-studied indigenous communities of Chinese women has also been included. Multiple indexes enhance the guide's accessibility.

Author : Kate Bagnall,Julia T. Martínez
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888528615

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Locating Chinese Women by Kate Bagnall,Julia T. Martínez Pdf

This ground-breaking edited collection draws together Australian historical scholarship on Chinese women, their gendered migrations, and their mobile lives between China and Australia. It considers different aspects of women’s lives, both as individuals and as the wives and daughters of immigrant men. While the number of Chinese women in Australia before 1950 was relatively small, their presence was significant and often subject to public scrutiny. Moving beyond traditional representations of women as hidden and silent, this book demonstrates that Chinese Australian women in the twentieth century expressed themselves in the public eye, whether through writings, in photographs, or in political and cultural life. Their remarkable stories are often inspiring and sometimes tragic and serve to demonstrate the complexities of navigating female lives in the face of racial politics and imposed categories of gender, culture, and class. Historians of transnational Chinese migration have come to recognize Australia as a crucial site within the ‘Cantonese Pacific’, and this collection provides a new layer of gendered comparison, connecting women’s experiences in Australia with those in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand. ‘Locating Chinese Women is a path-breaking book. By exploring the experiences of Chinese Australian women during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the authors have opened new and compelling avenues of inquiry about the history of Chinese Australian women. In this landmark work, they have brilliantly recast the history of Chinese Australia.’ —Joy Damousi, Australian Catholic University ‘Locating Chinese Women breaks new ground in Australian and transnational Chinese women’s history by making the lives of remarkable Chinese Australian women visible. Photographs, testimonies, Chinese-language newspapers, and digitized archives help document the women’s agency and activities as they navigate public lives between and within Australia and China during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.’ —Shirley Hune, University of California, Los Angeles, and University of Washington

Author : Anne-Marie Brady,Douglas Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415528658

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Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China by Anne-Marie Brady,Douglas Brown Pdf

By exploring the diverse nature of foreign activities in Republican China, this book complicates the dominant narratives of the imperialistic foreigner and Chinese victim. The spaces and relationships examined in the essays in this volume reveal a complex series of interactions between foreigners and the people of China which go far beyond one-way transmission or exploitation. This edited volume adopts a uniquely multi-disciplinary approach to the study of foreigners in China, and utilises the perspectives of historiography, literary studies, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, and political science.

Author : Wu Xiaoxin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2072 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315493992

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Christianity in China by Wu Xiaoxin Pdf

A bibliographical guide to the works in American libraries concerning the Christian missionary experience in China.

Author : Aihua Zhang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793608154

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The Beijing Young Women’s Christian Association, 1927–1937 by Aihua Zhang Pdf

By exploring the interplay among gender, religion, and modernity, this book exposes the part Chinese Christian women played in China’s quest for a strong nation in general and in Republican Beijing’s modern transformation in particular. Focusing on the Beijing Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), the author examines how the Association, guided by the Christian tenet “to serve, not to be served,” tailored its Western models and devised new programs to meet the city’s demands. Its enterprises ranged from providing women- and child-oriented facilities to promoting constructive recreational activities and from reforming home and family to improving public health. Through an analysis of these endeavors, the author argues that the Chinese YW women's contribution to the city's modernity was a creative embodiment of the then socially targeted missionary movement known as the Social Gospel. In the process, they demonstrated their distinctive new ideals of womanhood featuring practicality, social service, and broad cooperation. These qualities set them apart from both traditional women and other brands of the New Woman. While criticized as trivial, their efforts, however, pioneered modern social service in China and complemented what municipal authorities and other progressive groups undertook to modernize the city.

Author : Xiaoxin Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2589 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317474678

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Christianity in China by Xiaoxin Wu Pdf

Now revised and updated to incorporate numerous new materials, this is the major source for researching American Christian activity in China, especially that of missions and missionaries. It provides a thorough introduction and guide to primary and secondary sources on Christian enterprises and individuals in China that are preserved in hundreds of libraries, archives, historical societies, headquarters of religious orders, and other repositories in the United States. It includes data from the beginnings of Christianity in China in the early eighth century through 1952, when American missionary activity in China virtually ceased. For this new edition, the institutional base has shifted from the Princeton Theological Seminary (Protestant) to the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural Relations at the University of San Francisco (Jesuit), reflecting the ecumenical nature of this monumental undertaking.

Author : Archie R. Crouch
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Archival resources
ISBN : 0873324196

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Christianity in China by Archie R. Crouch Pdf

A bibliographical guide to the works in American libraries concerning the Christian missionary experience in China.

Author : Him Mark Lai
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252055867

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Chinese American Transnational Politics by Him Mark Lai Pdf

Born and raised in San Francisco, Lai was trained as an engineer but blazed a trail in the field of Asian American studies. Long before the field had any academic standing, he amassed an unparalleled body of source material on Chinese America and drew on his own transnational heritage and Chinese patriotism to explore the global Chinese experience. In Chinese American Transnational Politics, Lai traces the shadowy history of Chinese leftism and the role of the Kuomintang of China in influencing affairs in America. With precision and insight, Lai penetrates the overly politicized portrayals of a history shaped by global alliances and enmities and the hard intolerance of the Cold War era. The result is a nuanced and singular account of how Chinese politics, migration to the United States, and Sino-U.S. relations were shaped by Chinese and Chinese American groups and organizations. Lai revised and expanded his writings over more than thirty years as changing political climates allowed for greater acceptance of leftist activities and access to previously confidential documents. Drawing on Chinese- and English-language sources and echoing the strong loyalties and mobility of the activists and idealists he depicts, Lai delivers the most comprehensive treatment of Chinese transnational politics to date.

Author : Xia Shi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231546232

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At Home in the World by Xia Shi Pdf

During the years spanning the late Qing dynasty and the early Republican era, the status of Chinese women changed in both subtle and decisive ways. As domestic seclusion ceased to be a sign of virtue, new opportunities emerged for a variety of women. Much scholarly attention has been given to the rise of the modern, independent “new women” during this period. However, far less is known about the stories of married nonprofessional women without modern educations and their public activities. In At Home in the World, Xia Shi unearths the history of how these women moved out of their sequestered domestic life; engaged in charitable, philanthropic, and religious activities; and repositioned themselves as effective public actors in urban Chinese society. Investigating the lives of individual women as well as organizations such as the YWCA and the Daoyuan, she shows how her protagonists built on the past rather than repudiating it, drawing on broader networks of family, marriage, and friendship and reconfiguring existing beliefs into essential components of modern Chinese gender roles. The book stresses the collective forms of agency these women exercised in their endeavors, highlighting the significance of charitable and philanthropic work as political, social, and civic engagement. Shi also analyzes how men—alive, dead, or absent—both empowered and constrained women’s public ventures. She offers a new perspective on how the public, private, and domestic realms were being remade and rethought in early twentieth-century China, in particular, how the women navigated these developing spheres. At Home in the World sheds new light on how women exerted their influence beyond the home and expands the field of Chinese women’s history.

Author : Li Ma
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793631572

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Christian Women and Modern China by Li Ma Pdf

Christian Women and Modern China presents a social history of women pioneers in Chinese Protestantism from the 1880s to the 2010s. The author interrupts a hegemonic framework of historical narratives by exploring formal institutions and rules as well as social networks and social norms that shape the lived experiences of women. This book achieves a more nuanced understanding about the interplays of Christianity, gender, power and modern Chinese history. It reintroduces Chinese Christian women pioneers not only to women’s history and the history of Chinese Christianity, but also to the history of global Christian mission and the global history of many modern professions, such as medicine, education, literature, music, charity, journalism, and literature.