Feng The Making of a Family Saga

Ginling College
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4384-2914-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feng, Jin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Telling Stories of Ginling

Ginling College
The Family Discourse
Sources and Scholarship
Organization of Chapters

1. The House of a Hundred Rooms (1915–23)

Setting and Dramatis Personae
The House of a Hundred Rooms
We Had a Dream
Creation of the Family Discourse
Implementation of the Family Discourse: Initial Negotiations
Student Compositions: The Kingdom of God in China

2. Building These Hallowed Halls (1923–27)

The New Ginling Home
Training Her Body for God or for China: PE at Ginling (I)
Femininity, Christianity, and Nationalism: PE at Ginling (II)
Awakening to Rising Confl icts

3. The Return of the Native Daughter (1927–37)

The Tempest of 1927
Mother and Daughter
Cooperation, Equality, and Power: Ginling’s Battle for Independence in the 1920s
Dissent, Squabble, and Unrest: “Family” Life in the 1920s to 1930s

4. Dispersion and Reunion (1937–45)

The Nanjing Massacre: 1937–38
Sharing the Fate of the National Family (I): Adventures of the Ginling Family in Exile
Sharing the Fate of the National Family (II): Curricular Adjustments
Head of the Family in the War
Heaven or Hell? The Two Sides of the War Story

5. Things Came Undone (1945–52)

Homecoming
Disintegration and Countermeasures at Postwar Ginling
Regime Change and the End
Epilogue: Resurrection and Reunion
Family Correspondence
Ginling Reborn
The Discourse of the Ginling Family: Final Accounting

Appendix A: Biographical Dictionary
Appendix B: Glossary of Chinese Characters
Appendix C: Catalogue of Names and Times of Interviews by the Author

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jin Feng is Associate Professor of Chinese and Japanese at Grinnell College and the author of The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction.