Christianity, Femininity and Social Change in Contemporary China

• Main Author: Ma, Li (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
• Subjects: Oral history.; China-History.; Social history.; Christianity.; Women.; Oral History.; History of China.; Social History.; Women's Studies.

Women make up the vast majority of Protestant Christians in China-a largely faceless majority, as their stories too often go untold in scholarly research as well as popular media. This book writes Protestant Chinese women into the history of twenty-first-century China. It features the oral histories...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Prodigal Daughter
• 3. Lost Sheep
• 4. Little Comfort
• 5. Suicide
• 6. Upward Mobility
• 7. Mustard Seeds
• 8. Negative Emotions
• 9. Looming Tragedy
• 10. "Schizophrenia"
• 11. Estranged
• 12. Cautionary Tale
• 13. Familial Harmony
• 14. Impartial Love
• 15. Strong Woman
• 16. Conclusion.