Cultures colliding : American missionaries, Chinese resistance, and the rise of modern institutions in China /  John R. Haddad.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Into the Crucible: Shandong Missionaries Face Resistance -- An Exercise in Futility: The Struggles of Missionaries in the South -- Christ versus the Demons: Encounters with the Chinese Supernatural -- Cutting the Cord: Chinese Ministers Out on Their Own -- Crisis Breeds Invention: The Emergence of New Missionary Models -- The Spirit of Debate: The Missionary Conference of 1877 and Aftermath -- A New Kind of Man: Experiments in Hybrid Identity -- Challenging Convention: Single Women Enter Missions -- Transforming Health: Female Doctors Enter Medical Missions -- Hybrid Healers: American-trained Chinese Women in Medicine -- Extroverted Evangelists: The Student Volunteer Movement and the YMCA -- Ivory Pagodas: The Rise of Christian Colleges -- Conclusion: Into the Twentieth Century.

"This book tells the history of how and why American missionaries started building schools, colleges, medical schools, hospitals, and YMCA chapters in China before 1900"-- Provided by publisher.

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Contents note: I. The Nineteenth Century: Dynasty, Foreign Devils and the Kingdom of God. II. The Twentieth Century: Warlords, Nationalism and the Emerging Church.
Keywords: Missionary enterprise, the Middle Kingdom in 1837, early missions, coming of the Protestants, first encounters 1837-1856, Singapore, First Opium War, Treaty of Nanking (Nanjing), Xiamen, Ningbo, Canton (Guangzhou), Shanghai, Bible translation, treaty ports and the Long-Haired Rebels, 1856-1866; Arrow War, missionaries and the colonial system, San Poh, Presbyteries, Shandong Mission, Taiping Rebellion, Taipings and Christian missions; Heart of the Empire, 1867-1893, anti-foreign movements, rapid expansion of the missions, policies and practices, Central China Mission, North China Mission, Shandong Mission, South China Mission, Hainan Island Mission; along the Grand Canal, 1867-1893, Hangzhou, Suzhou, North Jiangsu, Lingwu, United Presbyterian Church, Missionary Conference of 1890; Advocates of Reform, 1894-1899, Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), scramble for concessions, reform movement, the Boxer Year 1900, Righteous and Harmonious Fists, Weixian, Siege days at Peking (Beijing), Martyrs of Boading, Boxer Protocols; Hunan Mission, Nanjing Theological Seminary, United Synod, Goforth/Ting Revivals, Chinese renaissance, Isle of Palms, Church of Christ in China, National Christian Council, missionary medicine, John G. Kerr Refuge for the Insane, Hackett Medical School for Women, Ming Sum School for the Blind, Chefoo School for the Deaf, Shandong Christian University School of Medicine, Love and Mercy Hospital, Huaiyin, Christian school system, Station Academies, China Colleges, Hangzhou Christian College, University of Nanjing, Ginling (Jinling) College for Women, Yenching (Yanjing) University, Northern Expedition, anti-Christian movement.
Appendix: Prebyterian Mission Hospitals in China -- Presbyterian Mission Schools -- Presbyterian Missionaries, 1837-1953.

林美玫有中國近代史和美國史的雙重修養，又憑藉對美國宗教及聖公會研究學術史的熟稔，對當時的美國社會背景與女傳教士的宣教動機都交代得相當到位。書中揭示了美國聖公會中國差會內部的複雜多樣性，挖掘出聖公會在華女傳教士的多個集體性個案，並結合美國宗教史、美國婦女研究、中國婦女研究與基督宗教在華史來闡述19世紀中美兩國婦女在宗教-性別-文化上對話的意義，是近年來"婦女與宗教"研究領域內不可多得的佳作.--OCLC note.

Contents: Chinese reform, American mission, and "woman's work" -- Commitment -- Single women and mission community -- Married women and missionary vocation -- Domestic empire -- Imperial evangelism -- Chinese women and Christian identity -- Afterword: Amazons in Cathay.
Also held at Gleeson Library.

Contents: The light of science and revelation: the mission -- You can see all nations here: Alabama culture and the missionary enterprise -- The intense longing of my heart: -- Preparing for China missions -- One of the hardest things I ever undertook: -- First contact with China -- The peculiar customs are so bewildering: -- Understanding Chinese culture -- The best way is to live one day at a time: -- Missionary life in China -- A trip of preaching, healing, and teaching: missionary work -- I was a different person, my girlhood was past: -- Woman consciousness among Alabama missionaries -- Error is propagated along with truth: conflict among Alabama missionaries -- Jesus Christ had nothing to do with the French: -- Missionaries and Chinese politics: -- You who drink the water, do not forget the person who dug the well: -- The legacies of Alabama missionaries in China.

Another copy Gleeson Library.
Also available online to USF affiliates via EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection.

Vanessa Künnemann, Ruth Mayer / Transnational Nationalisms – China and the United States in a Pacific World. An Introduction. PART I: NATIONALISMS AND CONFIGURATION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY IN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES . Yong Chen / The American Dream and Dreams of China: A Transnational Approach to Chinese American History - Klaus Mühlhahn / National Studies and Global Entanglements: The Re-Envisioning of China in the Early Twentieth Century - Nicola Spakowski / China in the World: Constructions of a Chinese Identity in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century.
PART II: CHINESE AMERICA, CITIZENSHIP, NATIONALITY, AND THE WORLD. Ruth Mayer / Paper Citizens and Biometrical Identification. Immigration, Nationality, and Belonging in Chinese America during the Exclusion Era -- Madeline Y. Hsu / Befriending the Yellow Peril: Student Migration and the Warming of American Attitudes towards Chinese, 1905-1950 – K. Scott Wong / Between the 'Mountain of Tang' and the 'Adopted Land': The Chinese American Periodical Press and the Emergence of Chinese American Identities in the Face of Exclusion.
PART III: MISSIONARY INTERVENTIONS: CULTURAL MEDIATION IN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES. Thoralf Klein / Christian Mission and the Internationalization of China, 1830-1950 - Vanessa Künnemann / Following with bleeding footsteps?' American Missions in China and the (Gendered) Critique of Pearl S. Buck - Dominika Ferens / The Deserving Heathen: Missionary Ethnography of China and its American Converts.