Becoming Faithful: Christianity, Literacy, and Female Consciousness in Northeast China, 1830-1930

Becoming Faithful: Christianity, Literacy, and Female Consciousness in Northeast China, 1830-1930

This dissertation explores how specific actors such as French Catholic missionaries of the Missions Etrangères de Paris (MEP) translated and disseminated the universality of the Christian message into the particular context of northeast China from the 1830s to the 1930s, and how Chinese Catholic converts, especially, female converts, interpreted and transformed the Catholic faith as a language to articulate an awareness of self.