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Foreign Exchange - Counterculture behind the Walls of St. Hilda's School for Girls, 1929-1937 (Hardcover)
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Foreign Exchange - Counterculture behind the Walls of St. Hilda's School for Girls, 1929-1937 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Christianity in China
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Foreign Exchange is the story of Yeh Yuanshuang and Dorothea
Kingsley Wakeman and their experiences at the American missionary
school. Founded in 1875, the school that would become St. Hilda's
School for Girls was intended to provide a strong, Christian
education for its students. Daily student-teacher interactions,
however, created an environment that allowed for a foreign exchange
which led to the creation of a new culture that subverted both
American and Chinese gender constructs. The walls that surrounded
the St. Hilda's compound not only served to protect the school from
outside danger, but to also create a space where new gender
expectations could be nurtured away from the gaze of prying eyes.
Thus, the American teachers as well as the Chinese students were
acculturated and socialized in ways that liberated them from their
respective patriarchal situations. For Dorothea, serving as a
teacher allowed her to remain single yet still be engaged in a
professional career that would not be as socially stigmatizing as
it would be if she remained at home. As a teacher at St. Hilda's,
not only was she educating a future generation of Chinese women,
but as an independent woman who served in an important position,
she was an example for the girls at St. Hilda's what women could do
when given an education. For Yuanshuang, her education provide her
with the means to aspire to roles outside the culturally prescribed
positions as daughter, wife, and mother by giving her the
intellectual tools that enabled her to find work as a teacher at
the start of the War of Resistance against the Japanese. Her
involvement in school activities developed self-reliance,
independence, and leadership skills that served her both in China
and eventually in the United States. Her education socialized her
to American values and customs so that when she arrived in the
United States, she was able to adapt readily. Yuanshuang and
Dorothea's stories also reveal the impact of the modern world on
their parents' generation.
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