A Heart at Leisure from Itself : Caroline Macdonald of Japan.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (380 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Pioneering Canadian Roots -- 2 Christ and the Empire of the Mikado -- 3 'Women's Work for Women' -- 4 From Tokyo to Aberdeen: 'The Lady Student' -- 5 'Grubbing at the Lingo' -- 6 The New Era of Taisho and 'the Woman Question' -- 7 'God's Strange Leading' -- 8 Prisoners and Prisons -- 9 'A Gentleman in Prison' -- 10 Tackling 'the Social Cosmos' -- 11 'Jesus Was a Labouring Man' -- 12 'Turning Earth's Smoothness Rough' -- 13 'The Faith that Rebels' -- 14 From Noda to Geneva -- 15 'Whether We Live or Whether We Die' -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
This book throws light on Japanese-Canadian relations in the first few decades of this century.
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Macdonald, Caroline, -- 1874-1931. Missionaries -- Japan -- Biography. Missionaries -- Canada -- Biography. Young Women''s Christian associations -- Japan.