Borrowed place : mission stations and local adaption in early twentieth-century Hunan /  by Riika-Leena Juntunen.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-360) and index.

In 'Borrowed place: Mission stations and local adaption in early Twentieth-century Hunan' Riika-Leena Juntunen creates a microhistorical narrative around the establishment, reception, and development of Lizhou protestant stations during the turbulent years of popular nationalism and early communist activity. The book examines the changing place identity around the stations from political, religious, ritual, cultural, and gendered perspectives, revealing a Chinese semi-religious community with varying motivations and in constant dialogue with its surroundings. The group developed its own normative code and hierarchy, and it offered both economic and religious benefits according to local models. Yet the developing political situation also meant it had to solve the question of anti-foreignism to be able to continue its existence.

Borrowed Place: Mission Stations and Local Adaption in EarlyTwentieth-Century Hunan; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Table and Figures; Abbreviations; Maps; Introduction; Spatiality and Localization; Chapters; 1: A Place Called Fuyintang; The First Visit and the Meaning of a Geographical Setting; The Market Town and the River; Conditional Tolerance in the Countryside; The Change of Attitude in Administrative Cities; The Second Visit and the Catholic Presence; The First Borrowers; Curiosity, Knowledge, and Prejudice Regarding the First Rented Premises.

Naming the PlaceThe First Visitors; Breaking and Respecting the Physical and Normative Boundaries of Space; Daotai Building Complex, a Symbol of Wealth and Permanence; Public and Private; The Sacred Corner of the Station; The Grasshopper Community; Hu, Wang, and the Meaning of Family Impediments; Bi, the Rare Christian in Jinshi; Zhong Xianren, a Devoted Confucian; Community Growth through Personal Networks; Wang, Dou, Fan, and Bao and the Delayed Journey Back Home; Li Anzhong, across Geographical and Denominational Lines; Supplementary Community for the Marginalized and Dislocated.

The Significance of a Secure Physical Location2: Developing Identities within the Local Discourse; Political Identity of Mission Stations; Taiping Rebellion and the Roots of Local Anti-Christianity; Protection under Unequal Treaties; Imbalance in Local Power Relations; How to Negotiate Foreign Associations within the Local Society; The 1911 Revolution and Changes toward Neutrality and Acceptance; Religious Familiarity and the Sacred Side of the New Community; Chinese Religiosity; Religious Localization and Local Interpretation; Personal Religious Pursuits; Healing Familiarity.

The Problematic Nature of Ritual IdentityHow to Accommodate Ancestral Spirits within Christianity; Initiation Rites; Communal Rites; Individual Rites; Cultural Enclaves of Western Modernity; Lizhou History and the Early Search for Modernity; The Benefits of Educational Reform; A Small Threat Compared to Possible Gains; Riding the Wave of Modernity; Gendered Identity and Spatial Division; Nei/wai Dichotomy; Mission Station as a Wai Space; Jinlan Girls School, Nei Space within the Wai Area; The Controversy of a Hidden Curriculum; 3: Independent Local Communities.

Reasons for Willingness to Join the Christian CommunityThe Economic Terms of Membership; Corporate Group with Common Property; Chinese Clans and the Christian Community: Compensation and Competition; Creating a Common Past; Inner Hierarchy, Power, and Conflicts; The Christian Code of Behavior and the Use of Power; Religious Workers and Evangelists; The Priests; Church Elders; Cultural Encounters with the Foreign Missionaries; 4: How to Resolve the Foreign Problem after 1925?; The Consequences of the New Political Identity; Early Signs of Disappearing Privileges; Silence and Disinterest.

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