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کتابخانه
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NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
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LA126996
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
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انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
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The Paradox of Gender among West China Missionary Collectors, 1920-1950
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[Article]
First Statement of Responsibility
Cory Willmott
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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During the turbulent years between the Chinese nationalist revolution of 1911 and the communist victory of 1949, a group of missionaries lived and worked in West China whose social gospel theologies led to unusual identification with Chinese. Among the regular social actors in their lives were itinerant "curio men" who, amidst the chaos of feuding warlords, gathered up the heirlooms of the deposed Manchurian aristocracy and offered these wares for sale on the quiet and orderly verandahs of the mansions inside the missionary compounds of West China Union University. Although missionary men and women often collected the same types of Chinese antiquities, these became variously specimens, fine arts, commodities and household effects because their collecting practices were framed within different cultural and gendered domains of value. The scientific and connoisseurial male-gendered collecting paradigms often bolstered the anti-imperialist Chinese nationalist modernities of the Republican state. They were therefore paradoxically at odds with female-gendered collecting paradigms that drew in part upon feminist discourses of capitalist consumerism. Coupled with residual ideals of domesticity and philanthropy, these fluid female discourses resonated with emergent Chinese New Woman modernities and inspired missionary women in creative bicultural identity projects.
SET
Date of Publication
2012
Physical description
129-165
Title
Social Sciences and Missions
Volume Number
25/1-2
International Standard Serial Number
1874-8945
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
collecting
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collection
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gender
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genre
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modernité
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modernity
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musées
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museums
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nationalisme
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New Woman
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Nouvelle Femme Chinoise
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West China Union University
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Cory Willmott
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
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10.1163/187489412X628118
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275578
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