Healing Body and Mind: The Life and Times of Madge Mateer in the Shandong Mission
In 1890, Madge Mateer arrived at the American Presbyterian mission station outside Weixian in Shandong Province (Northeast China), where she would work until her retirement in the 1930s. She arrived at a key moment when mission work in China was expanding rapidly from the coast into the interior. Ma...
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| Language: | English |
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2018
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The journal of Presbyterian history
Year: 2018, Volume: 96, Issue: 1, Pages: 4-17 |
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| Summary: | In 1890, Madge Mateer arrived at the American Presbyterian mission station outside Weixian in Shandong Province (Northeast China), where she would work until her retirement in the 1930s. She arrived at a key moment when mission work in China was expanding rapidly from the coast into the interior. Mateer was a woman of all trades, engaging in any type of work needed by the station. Beginning as one of the station’s first permanent doctors, she quickly moved into education, where she arguably made her greatest mark on the work in Weixian. Madge Mateer’s life in China highlights the important contributions women missionaries made to the work of the mission and to the social changes occurring in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While many scholars have focused on the work of women missionaries, few studies have specifically considered interior regions, where Mateer remained throughout her career. Mateer’s impact came not only through her hard work, but also through the leadership role she played in this important mission station. |
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