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The Christian missionary encounter was an important chapter of Sino-Western cultural interactions. Although religious conversion proceeded slowly, the efforts of missionaries to found modern institutions, transmit Western ideas and techniques, and improve social mobility for Christians and non-Christians permitted the envisioning of a new future. A number of scholars have characterized Christianity as an advent of global modernity, highlighting the determination of Bible women, female evangelists, mission school girls, nurses and prostitutes to appropriate missionary resources for self-empowerment.1 But little attention has been paid to the experience of orphans who were rescued and raised by foreign missionaries in a Christian environment. Julia Stone seeks to fill the gap in the literature by tracing the evolution of a German Lutheran orphanage from a mission outpost into a recognizable civic institution in the British colony of Hong Kong. Founded by the Berlin Women’s Missionary Society for China in Hong Kong during the 1850s, Bethesda (also known as the Berlin Foundling Home for Girls) served as an intercultural domain where the missionaries nurtured orphan girls to become Christian women in line with German Lutheranism. Rather than writing an institutional history, Stone examines the workings of social and religious power inside Bethesda
NAN NÜ – Brill
Published: Sep 10, 2014
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