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"Expressions of the Life that is within Us" Epistolary Practice of American Women in Republican China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Expressions of the Life that is within Us" Epistolary Practice of American Women in Republican China./
Author:	Zhou, Haipeng.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2011,
Description:	341 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 73-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International73-02A.
Subject:	American studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3465312
ISBN:	9781124770277

"Expressions of the Life that is within Us" Epistolary Practice of American Women in Republican China.
Zhou, Haipeng.

"Expressions of the Life that is within Us" Epistolary Practice of American Women in Republican China. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2011 - 341 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 73-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Emory University, 2011.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Reciprocal exchanges, interactions that influence a person's life and development, are the focus of my dissertation on a group of progressive American women. Among them are Ida Pruitt, Helen Snow, and Maud Russell, who stayed in China in the 1920s and 1930s, engaging in various progressive activities as social worker, YWCA secretary and independent journalist respectively. Letter writing and reading was an indispensable part of their life in China. It served as a vital link between their diverse Chinese experience and American homeland, it set up a free stage for these letter writers to create and perform various selves, it served as a key factor to define the letter writers' sense of community, and it provided a unique lens to see a transnational history with emphasis on gender and race. The purpose of this project is to unravel the significance of the discursive epistolary practice of these women. It examines through epistolary representations the internal and external standards in evaluating women's new and traditional roles in this historical period. More specifically, my dissertation will focus on four key themes: progressive American women's community in China, their self-representation of changing personas and selves in reaction to various external values, the influence of their letter writing on the perception of China in the US, and the impact of their epistolary practice on international feminist practices and cross-cultural understanding. To explore these themes, I investigate the foreign community in China and its epistolary culture in general, as well as conduct specific case studies. I argue that the epistolary legacies left by these middle-class American women open new windows to see the past from an enlightening perspective. They demonstrate that individuals' experience can break through ideological barriers and influence imbalance among big territorial powers. Through analysis of their letters, this project asserts these progressive women's own voices in history, and sets new angles in assessing their work and impacts.

ISBN: 9781124770277Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122720
American studies.

"Expressions of the Life that is within Us" Epistolary Practice of American Women in Republican China.
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