05158cam a2200793Ii 4500 ocn910845405 OCoLC 20200709060349.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 150608s2015 wauab ob s001 0 eng d N$T eng rda pn N$T N$T P@U YDXCP E7B IYU IDEBK VLB CDX EBLCP IDB AGLDB COCUF ICA DEBSZ LOA K6U OCLCA MOR PIFAG FVL ZCU COO MERUC OCLCQ IDK OCLCO U3W D6H STF WRM VTS ICG INT OCLCQ TKN OCLCQ DKC AU@ OCLCQ OCLCO JSTOR 910823887 930710301 932317738 9780295806037 (electronic bk.) 0295806036 (electronic bk.) 9780295994727 029599472X 1001616 (N$T) (OCoLC)910845405 (OCoLC)910823887 (OCoLC)930710301 (OCoLC)932317738 22573/ctvct9s24 JSTOR a-cc--- BV3420.M2 L5 2015eb REL 010000 bisacsh REL 105000 bisacsh HIS 008000 bisacsh LCO 011000 bisacsh 282/.518082 23 MAIN Li, Ji (Historian), 1976- God's little daughters : Catholic women in nineteenth-century Manchuria / Ji Li. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (xii, 218 pages) : illustrations, maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Michigan, 2009) under title: Becoming faithful : Christianity, literacy, and female consciousness in Northeast China, 1830-1930. Includes bibliographical references and index. Preface : Discovering the Du letters -- Acknowledgments -- Christianity, gender, and literacy in Northeast China -- Religion, women, and writing in rural China -- Religious knowledge and behavior -- Establishing faith in local society -- Institutionalization and indigenization -- Faith, gender, and a new female literacy in modern China -- Epilogue : Meeting the Du descendants -- Appendix : MEP missionaries and indigenous priests. God's Little Daughters examines a set of letters written by Chinese Catholic women from a small village in Manchuria to their French missionary, "Father Lin," or Dominique Maurice Pourquié, who in 1870 had returned to France in poor health after spending twenty-three years at the local mission of the Société des Missions Etrangères de Paris (MEP). The letters were from three sisters of the Du family, who had taken religious vows and committed themselves to a life of contemplation and worship that allowed them rare privacy and the opportunity to learn to read and write. Inspired by a close reading of the letters, Ji Li explores how French Catholic missionaries of the MEP translated and disseminated their Christian message in northeast China from the mid-19th to the early 20th centuries, and how these converts interpreted and transformed their Catholic faith to articulate an awareness of self. The interplay of religious experience, rhetorical skill, and gender relations revealed in the letters allow us to reconstruct the neglected voices of Catholic women in rural China. Print version record. Master record variable field(s) change: 072 Catholic Church Missions China Manchuria History. Catholic Church. Missions étrangères de Paris. Catholic Church. fast (OCoLC)fst00531720 Missions étrangères de Paris. fast (OCoLC)fst00603140 Missions China Manchuria History. Manchuria (China) Church history. RELIGION Christianity Catholic. bisacsh Missions. fast (OCoLC)fst01023771 China Manchuria. fast (OCoLC)fst01242805 RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies bisacsh Church history. fast (OCoLC)fst01411629 History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Electronic books. Modern Language Initiative. Print version: Li, Ji (Historian), 1976- God's little daughters 9780295994727 (DLC) 2015002181 (OCoLC)892701121 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1001616 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1001616 EBSCO Academic Comprehensive Collection Coutts Information Services COUT 30158884 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL3444652 ebrary EBRY ebr11062222 EBSCOhost EBSC 1001616 ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection IDEB cis30158884 Project MUSE MUSE muse47354 YBP Library Services YANK 12462041 92 N$T 56278 56278