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Redemption and Revolution : American and Chinese New Women in the Early Twentieth Century.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The United States in the World SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (236 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501706288
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Redemption and RevolutionDDC classification:
  • 305.420951/0904
LOC classification:
  • HQ1768
Online resources:
Contents:
REDEMPTION AND REVOLUTION -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The New Woman and World History -- 1. New Women in the Civilizing Mission -- 2. Science as the Key to Modern Progress -- 3. United States Internationalism and Chinese Modernity -- 4. Awash in the Storm of National Revolution -- 5. Divergent Paths of Historical Progress -- Epilogue: Lost in the Paradigm of World History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: In the early twentieth century, a good number of college-educated Protestant American women went abroad by taking up missionary careers in teaching, nursing, and medicine. Motoe Sasaki's transnational history of these New Women explores the intersections of gender, modernity, and national identity within the politics of world history.
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REDEMPTION AND REVOLUTION -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The New Woman and World History -- 1. New Women in the Civilizing Mission -- 2. Science as the Key to Modern Progress -- 3. United States Internationalism and Chinese Modernity -- 4. Awash in the Storm of National Revolution -- 5. Divergent Paths of Historical Progress -- Epilogue: Lost in the Paradigm of World History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

In the early twentieth century, a good number of college-educated Protestant American women went abroad by taking up missionary careers in teaching, nursing, and medicine. Motoe Sasaki's transnational history of these New Women explores the intersections of gender, modernity, and national identity within the politics of world history.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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