Introduction: From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century -- pt. I. Contiguities: Women, fiction, and print culture circa 1830. The women of Jinghua yuan ; Hou Zhi and "Women's Tanci" ; Fiction in three prominent women's lives ; Fiction as women's literature: the view circa 1830 -- pt. II. Continuities: Honglou meng ying in its nineteenth-century setting. Honglou meng ying in biographical and literary perspectives ; Honglou meng sequels and their female readers ; Women, publishing, and late Qing literary currents -- Afterword: Women and "The rise of the novel" in China -- Appendixes: A. Three generations of women ; B. Three poems in translation.

China's Christian colleges : cross-cultural connections, 1900-1950 / edited by Daniel H. Bays and Ellen Widmer.
Papers originally presented at a conference held Sept. 2003 at Wesleyan University.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-393) and index.

Pt. 1. "The call" : the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. The SVM and transformation of the Protestant mission to China / Terrill E. Lautz -- pt. 2. Foundations of the college enterprise. American geometries and the architecture of Christian campuses in China / Jeffrey W. Cody -- Science, religion, and the classics in Christian higher education to 1920 / Ryan Dunch -- The seven sisters and China, 1900-1950 / Ellen Widmer -- pt. 3. Curriculum and careers. Liberal arts education in English and campus culture at St. John's University / Edward Yihua Xu -- The professionalization of Chinese domesticity : Ava B. Milam and home economics at Yenching University / Helen Schneider -- Anglo-American law at Soochow University / Alison W. Conner -- From Lingnan to Pomona : Charles K. Edmunds and his Chinese American career / Dong Wang -- pt. 4. Wider ramifications. National salvation : teaching civic duty in China's Christian colleges / Susan Rigdon -- Same bed, different dreams : the American postwar plan for China's Christian colleges, 1943-1946 / Jiafeng Liu -- China's Christian colleges and the founding of the Harvard-Yenching Institute / Paul Daniel Waite and Peichi Tung Waite -- pt. 5. Beyond China. A Japanese American enterprise : Umeko Tsuda's Bryn Mawr network and the founding of Tsuda College / Yuko Takahashi -- Cyrus Hamlin in Turkey / Ted Widmer.

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