TY - BOOK AU - Li,Ji ED - Modern Language Initiative. TI - God's little daughters: Catholic women in nineteenth-century Manchuria SN - 9780295806037 AV - BV3420.M2 L5 2015eb U1 - 282/.518082 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Seattle PB - University of Washington Press KW - Catholic Church KW - Missions KW - China KW - Manchuria KW - History KW - Missions étrangères de Paris KW - fast KW - RELIGION KW - Christianity KW - Catholic KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies KW - Manchuria (China) KW - Church history KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1001616 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1001616 ER -