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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Li, Ji (Historian), 1976-
Corporate Author: Modern Language Initiative
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Missions etrangeres de Paris.
Catholic Church.
Église catholique > Missions > Chine > Mandchourie > Histoire.
Catholic Church > Missions > China > Manchuria > History.
Missions.
RELIGION > Sexuality & Gender Studies.
RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic.
Missions > Chine > Mandchourie > Histoire.
Missions > China > Manchuria > History.
China > Manchuria.
Manchuria (China) > Church history.
History.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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