RT Article
T1 A Genealogy of Breakthroughs: The Family and Education of Wong Tsing-yi (1869–1903)
JF Review of Religion and Chinese Society
VO 8
IS 2
SP 243
OP 262
A1 Wong, Sze-Long Aaron
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1782552499
AB Wong Tsing-yi (1869–1903) was a third-generation Christian woman from a South China family. Focusing on her life story, this study aims to show how her family’s connection and interactions with western missionaries generated new resources for her to reimagine family relations, learning, and social and gender roles, thereby transgressing prevalent social norms. Using the Chronicles of Wong’s family and missionary writings, this study demonstrates how interactions and exchanges with missionaries in practice far transcended the binary view of the hegemonic transmitter and passive receptor. Through a sustained process of exchanges, the family and missionaries engendered a new culture of mutual learning that gave rise to a genealogy of breakthroughs.
K1 Christian biography
K1 Genealogy
K1 South China studies
K1 domesticity
K1 female education
K1 Women missionaries
DO 10.1163/22143955-08020008