Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I -- Women's Missionary Societies -- Women Missionary Doctors in Nineteenth-Century China -- Part II -- Dr. Ailie Gale: The American Setting -- The Notable Nanchang Woman Physician -- Chinese Nationalism and Public Health Work in Tunki, Anhwei -- Female Protestant Ideals, Liberal Protestantism, and Chinese Nationalist Ideology Converge in Nanking -- Empowered by Piety, Victorious in War -- Chadwick Memorial Hospital, Tzechung -- Returning to Nanchang: The Final Years -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.