eBook

The Making of a Family Saga

Jin Feng

2010,2009

Overview

The institutional history of Ginling College is arguably a family history. Ginling, a Christian, women's college in Nanjing founded by Western missionaries, saw itself as a family. The school's leaders built on the Confucian ideal to envision a feminized, Christian family—one that would spread Christianity and uplift the family that was the Chinese nation. Exploring the various incarnations of the trope of the \"Ginling family,\" Jin Feng takes a microscopic view by emphasizing personal, subjective perspectives from the written and oral records of the Chinese and American women who created and sustained the school. Even when using more seemingly ordinary official documents, Feng seeks to shed light on the motives and dynamic interactions that created them and the impact they had on individual lives. Using this perspective, Feng questions the standard characterization of missionary higher education as simply Western cultural imperialism to show a process of influence and cultural exchange.

• Publisher: State University of New York Press,SUNY Press
• Subject: 20th century / Asian Studies / Asian Studies : Chinese Studies / Biography / Case studies / China / Christian universities and colleges / Church colleges / Church colleges -- China -- Case studies / Community life / Community life -- China -- Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng) -- History -- 20th century / Cultural Studies : Postcolonial Studies / Education / EDUCATION / History / Education : Education / Families / Families -- China -- Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng) -- History -- 20th century / Family / Feminist & Women's Studies / Gender and Sexuality : Women's Studies / Ginling College (Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China) / Ginling College (Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- Biography / Ginling College (Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- History / HISTORY / HISTORY / Asia / China / HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / History : History / Intellectual life / Missions / Missions -- China -- Case studies / Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng) / Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) / Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century / Social conditions / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies / Women / Women -- China -- Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng) -- Social conditions -- 20th century / Women intellectuals / Women intellectuals -- China -- Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng) -- Biography / Women's colleges / Women's colleges -- China -- Case studies
• ISBN: 9781438429120, 1438429126, 1438429134, 9781438429137, 1438429142, 9781438429144