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God's Little Daughters

Catholic Women in Nineteenth-Century Manchuria

by Ji Li

  • Hardback
  • 232 pages
  • Publisher: University of Washington Press
  • 15.8 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

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"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 Pourquie, who in 1870 had returned to France in poor health after spending twenty-three years at the local mission of the Societe des Missions Etrangeres 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.
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  • Author

    Ji Li

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    University of Washington Press

  • Published

    June 2015

  • Weight

    409g

  • Page Count

    232

  • Dimensions

    15.8 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780295994727

  • ISBN-10

    029599472X

  • Eden Code

    4532531

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