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Transnational Cooperation and the Christian Women’s Community in Canton, 1847–1951

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Transnational Cooperation and the Christian Women’s Community in Canton, 1847–1951

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Transnational Cooperation and the Christian Women's Community in Canton, 1847–1951 is a groundbreaking investigation into the work of missionary women during a transformational period in the history of China. Focused on women's work in Guangzhou (Canton) this book demonstrates the dynamic intercultural cooperation between Chinese Christian women and western missionaries. Significantly, it affirms that women missionaries and newly empowered Chinese Christian women created a common space that provided educational, social, and medical services in addition to the evangelizing work of the mission. This study demonstrates the multiple agencies within this women's network as women responded to changing US and Chinese societies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Contexts
2. Married and Single Women Missionaries in Early Canton Mission and the Start of True Light Seminary
3. American Women's Work and Chinese Women Workers
4. The Evolving Worlds of Missionary Women and Chinese Christian Women in Canton and the establishment of Canton YWCA (1900–1920s)
5. The Worlds of Women's Work in the Church Union Movement in Canton (Early 1920s–1938)
6. Your Turn, My Turn: Transnational Cooperation at the Ming Sum School for the Blind during the Second World War (1938–45)
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published Jun 11 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 272
ISBN 9781611465235
Imprint Lehigh University Press
Series Studies in Christianity in East Asia
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Wai-Yin Christina Wong

Wai-Yin Christina Wong is Assistant Professor in t…

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