The Making of a Family Saga: Ginling College

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ISBN: 9781438429137 | 1438429134
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Copyright: 11/5/2009

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Looks at China's Ginling College, the women's missionary institution of higher learning that developed a discourse of family, recasting the Chinese Confucian family ideal as a female and Christian one.

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List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Telling Stories of Ginling	p. 1
Ginling College	p. 2
The Family Discourse	p. 4
Sources and Scholarship	p. 17
Organization of Chapters	p. 25
The House of a Hundred Rooms (1915-23)	p. 26
Setting and Dramatis Personae	p. 27
The House of a Hundred Rooms	p. 34
We Had a Dream	p. 41
Creation of the Family Discourse	p. 48
Implementation of the Family Discourse: Initial Negotiations	p. 51
Student Compositions: The Kingdom of God in China	p. 61
Building These Hallowed Halls (1923-27)	p. 67
The New Ginling Home	p. 68
Training Her Body for God or for China: PE at Ginling (I)	p. 76
Femininity, Christianity, and Nationalism: PE at Ginling (II)	p. 89
Awakening to Rising Conflicts	p. 97
The Return of the Native Daughter (1927-37)	p. 111
The Tempest of 1927	p. 113
Mother and Daughter	p. 123
Cooperation, Equality, and Power: Ginling's Battle for Independence in the 1920s	p. 136
Dissent, Squabble, and Unrest: "Family" Life in the 1920s to 1930s	p. 158
Dispersion and Reunion (1937-45)	p. 170
The Nanjing Massacre: 1937-38	p. 172
Sharing the Fate of the National Family (I): Adventures of the Ginling Family in Exile	p. 181
Sharing the Fate of the National Family (II): Curricular Adjustments	p. 190
Head of the Family in the War	p. 199
Heaven or Hell? The Two Sides of the War Story	p. 207
Things Came Undone (1945-52)	p. 215
Homecoming	p. 216
Disintegration and Countermeasures at Postwar Ginling	p. 219
Regime Change and the End	p. 226
Epilogue: Resurrection and Reunion	p. 242
Family Correspondence	p. 242
Ginling Reborn	p. 244
The Discourse of the Ginling Family: Final Accounting	p. 248
Biographical Dictionary	p. 255
Glossary of Chinese Characters	p. 259
Catalogue of Names and Times of Interviews by the Author	p. 267
Notes	p. 269
Bibliography	p. 297
Index	p. 309
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