The Making of a Family Saga -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Telling Stories of Ginling -- Ginling college -- The family discourse -- Sources and Scholarship -- organization of chap t er s -- Chapter 1. The House of a Hundred Rooms (1915-23) -- Setting and dramatis personae -- The house of a hundred rooms -- We had a dream -- Creation of the family discourse -- Implementation of the family discourse: Initial negotiationsThe creation and dissemination of the discourse of the Ginling -- Student compositions:the kingdom of god in china -- Chapter 2. Building These Hallowed Halls(1923-27) -- The new ginling home -- Training her body for god or for china:peat ginling (i) -- Femininity, Christianity, and Nationalism:Peat ginling (i i) -- Awakening to rising conflicts -- Chapter 3. The Return of the Native Daughter (1927-37) -- The tempest of 1927 -- Mother and Daughter -- Cooperation, equality, and power:ginling's battle for independence in the 1920s -- Dissent, squabble, and unrest:"family" life in the 1920s to 1930s -- Chapter 4. Dispersion and Reunion(1937-45) -- The nanj ing massacre: 1937-38 -- Sharing the fate of the national family i:adventures of the ginling family in exile -- Sharing the fate of the national family i i:curricular adjustments -- Head of the family in the war -- Heaven or hell?the two sides of the war story -- Chapter 5. Things Came Undone(1945-52) -- Homecoming -- Disintegration and countermeasures at postwar ginling -- Regime change and the end -- Epilogue: Resurrection and Reunion -- Family correspondence -- Ginling reborn -- The discourse of the ginling family:f inal accounting -- Appendix A. Biographical Dictionary -- Appendix B. Glossary of Chinese Characters -- Appendix C. Catalogue of Names and Times of Interviews by the Author -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D.

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