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God's Little Daughters : Catholic Women in Nineteenth-Century Manchuria /

God's Little Daughters examines a set of letters written by Chinese Catholic women from a small village in Manchuria to their French missionary, "Father Lin," or Dominique Maurice Pourquie, who in 1870 had returned to France in poor health after spending twenty-three years at the loca...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Li, Ji (Historian), 1976-
Autor Corporativo: Modern Language Initiative
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : Discovering the Du letters
  • Acknowledgments
  • Christianity, gender, and literacy in Northeast China
  • Religion, women, and writing in rural China
  • Religious knowledge and behavior
  • Establishing faith in local society
  • Institutionalization and indigenization
  • Faith, gender, and a new female literacy in modern China
  • Epilogue : Meeting the Du descendants
  • Appendix : MEP missionaries and indigenous priests.