TY - BOOK ID - 77910938 TI - The making of a family saga : Ginling College PY - 2009 SN - 1438429142 1441629785 9781441629784 9781438429144 9781438429137 1438429134 9781438429144 PB - Albany : ©2009 SUNY Press, DB - UniCat KW - Christian universities and colleges KW - Community life KW - Families KW - Missions KW - Women intellectuals KW - Women KW - Women's colleges KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Intellectuals KW - Christian missions KW - Christianity KW - Missions, Foreign KW - Religion KW - Theology, Practical KW - Proselytizing KW - Family KW - Family life KW - Family relationships KW - Family structure KW - Relationships, Family KW - Structure, Family KW - Social institutions KW - Birth order KW - Domestic relations KW - Home KW - Households KW - Kinship KW - Marriage KW - Matriarchy KW - Parenthood KW - Patriarchy KW - Associations, institutions, etc. KW - Human ecology KW - Christian colleges KW - Church colleges KW - Universities and colleges KW - Colleges for women KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Social aspects KW - Education KW - Ginling College (Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China) KW - Jinling da xue KW - Jinling nü zi wen li xue yuan (Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China) KW - 金陵女子文理學院 (Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China) KW - 金陵女子文理学院 (Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China) KW - History. KW - Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) KW - Chin-ling (China) KW - Ginling (China) KW - Jinling (China) KW - Nan Jing (China) KW - Nanjingshi (China) KW - Nankin (China) KW - Nanking KW - Nanking (China) KW - Intellectual life KW - Geschichte 1915-1952 KW - Nanjing shi fan da xue. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77910938 AB - The institutional history of Ginling College is arguably a family history. Ginling, a Christian, women's college in Nanjing founded by Western missionaries, saw itself as a family. The school's leaders built on the Confucian ideal to envision a feminized, Christian family—one that would spread Christianity and uplift the family that was the Chinese nation. Exploring the various incarnations of the trope of the "Ginling family," Jin Feng takes a microscopic view by emphasizing personal, subjective perspectives from the written and oral records of the Chinese and American women who created and sustained the school. Even when using more seemingly ordinary official documents, Feng seeks to shed light on the motives and dynamic interactions that created them and the impact they had on individual lives. Using this perspective, Feng questions the standard characterization of missionary higher education as simply Western cultural imperialism to show a process of influence and cultural exchange. ER -