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MISSION IN SUZHOU
Sophie Lanneau
and Wei Ling Girl's Academy
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MISSION IN SUZHOU
Sophie Lanneau
and Wei Ling Girl's Academy
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MISSION IN SUZHOU Sophie Lanneau and Wei Ling Girl's Academy
by Li Li
(Salem State College, USA)
ISBN: 1-889431-57-5
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book chronicles the history of Sophie Lanneau, a Southern Baptist missionary from North
Carolina and Wei Ling Girl’s Academy, the mission school she created in Suzhou,
China. Li Li writes of the triumphs and difficulties faced as Lanneau and the
Chinese women she endeavored to help struggled to bridge the cultural and religious
barriers that separated them. In over forty years of missionary work Lanneau
witnessed such major historical events as the Chinese Republican Revolution, the
Nationalist Revolution, the Sino-Japanese War, the civil war and the Communist takeover.
Mission in Suzhou recounts the transformation of Chinese society and of its people
and explains why this dramatic shift in Chinese goals eventually proved incompatible with
Lanneau and Wei Ling Girl’s Academy. |
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Li Li is Associate Professor of History at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts. His publications include numerous articles on women’s involvement with Protestant missions in China and several presentations on Chinese-American studies, gender studies, and East Asian history.
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