Redemption and revolution : American and Chinese new women in the early twentieth century /
In the early twentieth century, a good number of college-educated Protestant American women went abroad by taking up missionary careers in teaching, nursing, and medicine. Most often, their destination was China, which became a major mission field for the U.S. Protestant missionary movement as the U...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2016.
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Colección: | United States in the world.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the new woman and world history
- New women in the civilizing mission
- Science as the key to modern progress
- United States internationalism and Chinese modernity
- Awash in the storm of national revolution
- Divergent paths of historical progress
- Epilogue : lost in the paradigm of world history.