Educating the Women of Hainan: The Career of Margaret Moninger in China, 1915-1942

For Margaret Moninger-a brilliant, fun-loving, and dedicated young woman from Iowa-a career as a missionary in China promised adventure and the chance for responsibility and authority denied most American women of her time. In 1915 she went as a Presbyterian missionary to Hainan Island, China's southernmost territory, where she remained until repatriated in 1942. During her years in Hainan, Moninger played many roles: she headed a girls' mission school, wrote scholarly articles on the Miao abor

Author: Kathleen L. Lodwick
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780813156309

About the Author

Kathleen L. Lodwick is associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, Allentown.

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