China and the Christian colleges, 1850-1950 / Jessie Gregory Lutz.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-556) and index.

Contents: Preface -- I. Confrontation in China -- II. Nineteenth-Century Origins -- III. An Educational Alternative -- IV. Expansion and Consolidation in an Era of Change, 1895-1925 -- V. Special Emphases -- VI. Educational Response in an Era of Change -- VII. The Challenge of Chinese Nationalism, 1919-1930 -- VIII. Sinification and Secularization, the 1930's -- IX. The College and the Student Movement of the 1930's -- X. The Impact of the War, 1937-1945 -- XI. Civil Conflict and the Politicizing of College Youth, 1945-1948 -- XII. Amalgamation -- XIII. Assessments -- List of China Christian Colleges -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index.

Local access digpdf [Lutz-China and Christian Colleges.pdf]

The changing context of Sino-Western relations and Protestant missions, 1807-1851 -- Youth in a turbulent Germany and an expanding West -- Independent missionary -- The multiple roles of nineteenth-century missionaries -- The West learns about China : Karl Gützlaff's Western-language writings -- Translating Christianity for China -- New horizons -- Karl Gützlaff and the Chinese Union -- Karl Gützlaff, Chinese Christians, and the Chinese heterodox communities -- Karl Gützlaff : "parson and pirate, charlatan and genius"?

Women in imperial China: ideal, stereotype, and reality / Jessie G. Lutz -- Christian women of China in the seventeenth century / Gail King -- A necessary evil: the contribution of Chinese "virgins" to the growth of the Catholic Church in late Qing China / R.G. Tiedemann -- Child bodies, blessed bodies: the contest between Christian virginity and Confucial chastity / Eugenion Menegon -- Christian virgins in early Qing, Sichuan / Robert Entenmann -- Models of female Christians in early twentieth-century China: historiographical study / Peter Chen-Main Wang -- Gospel and gender: female Christians in Chaozhou, South China / Joseph Tse-Hei Lee -- Women and Christianity in rural north Henan, 1890-1912 / Margo S. Gewurtz -- Lady Candida Xu: a widow between Chinese and Christian ideals / Claudia von Collani -- Bible women / Ling Oi Ki -- Establishing a female medical elite: the early history of the nursing profession in China / John R. Stanley -- "To develop native powers": Shi Meiyu and the Danforth Memorial Hospital Nursing School, 1903-1920 / Connie Shemo -- "Mothers to our country": education and ideology among Chinese Protestant women, 1870-1930 / Ryan Dunch -- Chinese nationalism and Christian womanhood in early twentieth-century China: the story of Mary Gao (Gao Meiyu) / M. Cristina Zaccarini -- The advance to higher learning: power, modernization, and the beginnings of women's education at Canton Christian College / Dong Wang -- Women's education and social mobility / Jessie G. Lutz -- Beyond missions: Christianity as a Chinese religion in a changing China / Jessie G. Lutz.