Gender and History: Modern Chinese Women and Christianity

Author: Tao Feiya
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: There are few monographs on the historical study of Christianity, and even fewer on modern Chinese Christian women. Research in this field began in the 1980s in the United States and has now become a cutting-edge topic in modern Chinese history studies. In the summer of 2005, the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural Studies at the University of San Francisco and the College of Liberal Arts at Shanghai University jointly held the academic conference "Gender and History: Modern Chinese Women and Christianity" at Shanghai University. This book is a collection of the papers presented at that conference, totaling 17 essays. It delves into the development of modern Chinese women and Christianity from perspectives such as literature and materials, social organizations and movements, and female missionaries and female Christians. It vividly recreates the status and role of modern Chinese women in the spread of Christianity in China, with many aspects being new research topics. The authors are mostly renowned historians in China, each with their own expertise, and these essays fully demonstrate their profound academic foundations.