Looks at China’s Ginling College, the women’s missionary institution of higher learning that developed a discourse of family, recasting the Chinese Confucian family ideal as a female and Christian one.

List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: Telling Stories of Ginling Ginling College The Family Discourse Sources and Scholarship Organization of Chapters 1. The House of a Hundred Rooms (1915–23) Setting and Dramatis Personae The House of a Hundred Rooms We Had a Dream Creation of the Family Discourse Implementation of the Family Discourse: Initial Negotiations Student Compositions: The Kingdom of God in China 2. Building These Hallowed Halls (1923–27) The New Ginling Home Training Her Body for God or for China: PE at Ginling (I) Femininity, Christianity, and Nationalism: PE at Ginling (II) Awakening to Rising Confl icts 3. The Return of the Native Daughter (1927–37) The Tempest of 1927 Mother and Daughter Cooperation, Equality, and Power: Ginling’s Battle for Independence in the 1920s Dissent, Squabble, and Unrest: “Family” Life in the 1920s to 1930s 4. Dispersion and Reunion (1937–45) The Nanjing Massacre: 1937–38 Sharing the Fate of the National Family (I): Adventures of the Ginling Family in Exile Sharing the Fate of the National Family (II): Curricular Adjustments Head of the Family in the War Heaven or Hell? The Two Sides of the War Story 5. Things Came Undone (1945–52) Homecoming Disintegration and Countermeasures at Postwar Ginling Regime Change and the End Epilogue: Resurrection and Reunion Family Correspondence Ginling Reborn The Discourse of the Ginling Family: Final Accounting Appendix A: Biographical Dictionary Appendix B: Glossary of Chinese Characters Appendix C: Catalogue of Names and Times of Interviews by the Author Notes Bibliography Index