Pioneer Chinese Christian women : gender, Christianity, and social mobility / edited by Jessie G. Lutz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women in imperial China: ideal, stereotype, and reality / Jessie G. Lutz -- Christian women of China in the seventeenth century / Gail King -- A necessary evil: the contribution of Chinese "virgins" to the growth of the Catholic Church in late Qing China / R.G. Tiedemann -- Child bodies, blessed bodies: the contest between Christian virginity and Confucial chastity / Eugenion Menegon -- Christian virgins in early Qing, Sichuan / Robert Entenmann -- Models of female Christians in early twentieth-century China: historiographical study / Peter Chen-Main Wang -- Gospel and gender: female Christians in Chaozhou, South China / Joseph Tse-Hei Lee -- Women and Christianity in rural north Henan, 1890-1912 / Margo S. Gewurtz -- Lady Candida Xu: a widow between Chinese and Christian ideals / Claudia von Collani -- Bible women / Ling Oi Ki -- Establishing a female medical elite: the early history of the nursing profession in China / John R. Stanley -- "To develop native powers": Shi Meiyu and the Danforth Memorial Hospital Nursing School, 1903-1920 / Connie Shemo -- "Mothers to our country": education and ideology among Chinese Protestant women, 1870-1930 / Ryan Dunch -- Chinese nationalism and Christian womanhood in early twentieth-century China: the story of Mary Gao (Gao Meiyu) / M. Cristina Zaccarini -- The advance to higher learning: power, modernization, and the beginnings of women's education at Canton Christian College / Dong Wang -- Women's education and social mobility / Jessie G. Lutz -- Beyond missions: Christianity as a Chinese religion in a changing China / Jessie G. Lutz.