The Woman's Messenger: Evangelical Literature and the Missionary Movement in Republican China

Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, China underwent tumultuous times—from nation building and the New Culture Movement to the Japanese occupation and the renunciations accompanying the Korean War. As Yun Zhou argues, this transformative period cannot be fully understood without considering the evolving role of women and Christianity in Chinese society.

At the turn of the twentieth century, American missionary women established Nü duo (The Woman’s Messenger), a Christian women...