Gender, Culture, and Christianity : American Protestant mission schools in China, 1880-1930 9780820427676, 0820427675

Between 1880 and 1930, Christian schools established in China by American Protestant missionaries were at the peak of th

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Gender, Culture, and Christianity : American Protestant mission schools in China, 1880-1930
9780820427676, 0820427675

Ruth Bloch's stellar essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of gender and morality are brought togethe

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Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck's engagement with (neo-)missionary cultures in the United States and China was uni

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Contents: Foreword. Part One: From Pearl Harbor to the Cairo Conference. Part Two: From the Cairo Conference to the Surr

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Nietzsche was famously an atheist, despite coming from a strongly Protestant family. This heritage influenced much of hi

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Within a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences

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In doing so, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers, subjects, and view

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Known as an author of education books, Robbins first wrote this piece as a dissertation at Teachers College, Columbia Un

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American Hybrid Poetics explores the ways in which hybrid poetics—a playful mixing of disparate formal and aesthetic str

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In the early twentieth century, a group of elite East coast women turned to the American Southwest in search of an alter

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According to imperial edict in pre-modern China, an elementary school was to be established in every village in the empi

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