This is a very useful collection of seventeen essays on Chinese women Christians between the seventeenth century and about 1919. The editor is Jessie G. Lutz, long a respected scholar in several areas of modern Chinese history, including the pre-1949 Christian colleges, the politics of nationalism in the 1920s, and the early nineteenth century missionary Karl Gutzlaff. For this book, Lutz drew together several scholars to address historical issues concerning Chinese women and Christianity. What factors can help us understand the profound relationship between Chinese women and Christianity in the recent past? Considering that women have for a long time been a majority of Chinese Christian converts, and their importance in the day-to-day running of local parishes is legendary and attested to by many observers, they have been relatively understudied.

The resulting volume here is, like almost all collections of essays, uneven in focus and quality of research and writing....

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