Transnational Cooperation and the Christian Women’s Community in Canton, 1847–1951
From the True Light Seminary to the Young Women’s Christian Association
Transnational Cooperation and the Christian Women’s Community in Canton, 1847–1951
From the True Light Seminary to the Young Women’s Christian Association
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Description
Transnational Cooperation and the Christian Women's Community in Canton, 1847–1951 is a groundbreaking investigation into the work of missionary women during a transformational period in the history of China. Focused on women's work in Guangzhou (Canton) this book demonstrates the dynamic intercultural cooperation between Chinese Christian women and western missionaries. Significantly, it affirms that women missionaries and newly empowered Chinese Christian women created a common space that provided educational, social, and medical services in addition to the evangelizing work of the mission. This study demonstrates the multiple agencies within this women's network as women responded to changing US and Chinese societies.
Table of Contents
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Contexts
Section I: Women in the Nineteenth Century: Give and Take
2. Married and Single Women Missionaries in Early Canton Mission and the Start of True Light Seminary
3. American Women's Work and Chinese Women Workers
Section II: Women at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Their Own Tiandi
4. The Evolving Worlds of Missionary Women and Chinese Christian Women in Canton (1900–1920s)
5. The Worlds of Women's Work in the Church Union Movement in Canton (Early 1920s–1938)
6. Your Turn, My Turn: Transnational Cooperation at the Ming Sum School for the Blind during the Second World War (1938–45)
Conclusion
Appendix A: Family Tree of the Lius and the Luos Connecting with the PCUSA Canton Mission and/or the True Light School(s)
Appendix B: Huinian zhu'en”[Recall the Lord's Grace] (1929) in Chinese by Liu Xinci
Appendix C: Selected Missionaries of the PCUSA Canton Mission (later called South China Mission)
Appendix D: Selected Chinese Women of the PCUSA Canton Mission (later at the Canton CCC)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 10 Dec 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781611463682 |
| Imprint | Lehigh University Press |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Series | Studies in Christianity in East Asia |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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