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Missionary Girls’ Schools Yearbooks in Republican China: Navigating Youth, Gender and Nation, 1917-1948

dc.contributor.advisorRogaski, Ruth
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Jingyue
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-07T15:56:09Z
dc.date.available2018-05-07T15:56:09Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/8842
dc.descriptionHistory Department Honors Thesis. Awarded Highest Honors.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the yearbooks of two missionary girls’ secondary schools in Shanghai, the McTyeire School and St. Mary’s Hall, from 1917 to 1948. In response to the increasing Chinese nationalism, the female students from the two schools, who were mostly daughters from well-to-do elite Chinese families, started to publish annual yearbooks to record their thoughts and activities. This research investigates the advertisements, essays, fictional writings, and pictures in the yearbooks from both schools to analyze gendered self-expression among the female students during this period. Although the female students faced societal pressure to conform to women’s proper roles, they navigated divergent pressures emanating from nationalism, tradition, and idealized, allegedly modern, womanhood, and asserted their own ideals of independence and self-awareness in the space of the yearbooks.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherVanderbilt University. Department of Historyen_US
dc.subjectMissionary Schoolsen_US
dc.subjectSecondary Schoolen_US
dc.subjectShanghaien_US
dc.subject.lcshHistoryen_US
dc.subject.lcshChinaen_US
dc.subject.lcshYearbooken_US
dc.titleMissionary Girls’ Schools Yearbooks in Republican China: Navigating Youth, Gender and Nation, 1917-1948en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.description.collegeCollege of Arts and Scienceen_US
dc.description.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US


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