The Chinese medical ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, 1872-1937
Subtitle: on a cross-cultural frontier of gender, race, and nation
By: Connie A. Shemo
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bethlehem
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781611460858; 9781611460865
Subjects: Women physicians; Political activity; Medical Missions; Women; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Only too glad to draw attention from our feet: the childhoods of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, 1873-1891; title: All the difference between a Christian and a heathen, medical school and early medical ministry, 1892-1903; title: To develop native powers, the concept of self-support in Shi Meiyu's nursing school, 1903-1911; title: The only hope of China's regeneration, Kang Cheng, 1903-1911; title: How better could she serve her country?, nurses, amazons, and the 1911 revolution; title: To stand for the best of everything, Shi Meiyu, 1914-1920; title: By Chinese women for Chinese women, Kang Cheng, 1914-1921; title: More loyal Chinese citizens cannot be found, Shi Meiyu, 1920-1937; title: We are true nationalists, Kang Cheng, 1922-1931.