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At Home in the World : Women and Charity in Late Qing and Early Republican China.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (287 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231546232
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 361.70820951
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Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Elite Women and Charity -- 1. Beyond a Personal Virtue -- 2. Being Female Philanthropists -- Part II. The YWCA in China and "Women in the Home" -- 3. Reaching Out to Women in the Home -- 4. Women Interacting with the YWCA -- Part III. Women in the School of the Way -- 5. Redefining Confucian Gender Doctrines -- 6. Women, Superstition, and the Reorientation Toward Charity -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: In late Qing and early Republican China, new opportunities emerged for Chinese women. Xia Shi unearths the history of how married nonprofessional women without modern educations moved out of their sequestered domestic life, engaged in charitable, philanthropic, and religious activities, and repositioned themselves as public actors.
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Elite Women and Charity -- 1. Beyond a Personal Virtue -- 2. Being Female Philanthropists -- Part II. The YWCA in China and "Women in the Home" -- 3. Reaching Out to Women in the Home -- 4. Women Interacting with the YWCA -- Part III. Women in the School of the Way -- 5. Redefining Confucian Gender Doctrines -- 6. Women, Superstition, and the Reorientation Toward Charity -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Index.

In late Qing and early Republican China, new opportunities emerged for Chinese women. Xia Shi unearths the history of how married nonprofessional women without modern educations moved out of their sequestered domestic life, engaged in charitable, philanthropic, and religious activities, and repositioned themselves as public actors.

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