Karen M Teoh

Schooling Diaspora

Women, Education, and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s-1960s

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Produktbeschreibung

Schooling Diaspora looks into the motivations and strategies of missionaries, colonial authorities, and Chinese reformists and revolutionaries for educating girls, as well as the impact that this education had on identity formation among overseas Chinese women and larger society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780190495619
• ISBN-10: 0190495618
• Artikelnr.: 48812865

Autorenporträt

Karen M. Teoh is Associate Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies at Stonehill College.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* A Note on Spelling
* Introduction: Women, Education, and Overseas Chinese Identity
* Chapter 1: A Little Education, A Little Emancipation: The Colonial
Politics of Female Education, 1850s-1950s
* Chapter 2: Barrier against Evil, Encouragement for Good: English
Girls' Schools, 1850s-1960s
* Chapter 3: So That They May be an Honor to You: The Nyonya Problem
and the Singapore Chinese Girls' School, 1890s-1940s
* Chapter 4: Rare Flowers, Modern Girls, Good Citizens: Chinese Girls'
Schools, 1900s-1950s
* Chapter 5: Home is That Which I Adore: Re-migration to China,
1940s-1960s
* Conclusion: The Domestic Citizen and Female Education in the
Postcolonial Era
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index