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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sasaki, Motoe, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
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.