Chinese Women and Christianity 1860-1927

by Pui-Lan Kwok and Kwok Pui-Lan

Book Overview

Chinese theologian Kwok Pui-lan draws on a wide variety of archival material to reconstruct the life of Chinese women in the church. She analyzes their participation in social reform, and looks at their relationship to the feminist movement in China. Compared to their Chinese sisters, Christian women had more prolonged exposure to Western civilization through the Christian Church, mission schools, and Christian benevolence. Their responses, shows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155540670X
• ISBN13: 9781555406707
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"