The Making of a Family Saga

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. The institutional history of Ginling College is arguably a family history. Ginling, a Christian, women's college in Nanjing founded by Western missionaries, saw itself as a family. The school's leaders built on the Confucian ideal to envision a feminized, Christian family-one that would spread Chr