Soong Mayling and Wartime China, 1937-1945

Esther T. Hu

doi:10.5771/9781666928624

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-2861-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-2862-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 312
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. Note on the Romanizationof Chinese Words No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. A Military and Ideological Alliance No access
2. Chinese Women in Society: Gender, Biography, and Wartime Work No access
3. Academic Contribution and Research Questions No access
4. Narrative Scope and Methodology No access
5. Historical Sources No access
6. Roadmap No access
7. Notes No access
1. 1. Training Chinese Pilots and Promoting Their Victories No access
  2. Deploying Words as Weapons: Soong Mayling’s Rhetorical Appeals as Secretary-General of the Chinese Air Force No access
  3. The Geopolitical Situation in the Early War Years No access
  4. Honorary Commander of the American Volunteer Group No access
  5. Marshaling Resources and Encouraging Pilots as Mother of the Air Force No access
  6. The Cost of Defense No access
  7. Notes No access
2. 1. Soong Mayling’s Catholic and Methodist Family Heritage No access
  2. Historical Background of Foreign Missionaries in China and the Social Gospel No access
  3. Soong Mayling’s Essays on Christianity: A Relationship Between Faith and Good Works, or the Exercise of a “Practical Christianity” No access
  4. Partnering with the Church to Develop Modern China: Rural Reconstruction, the New Life Movement, and the National Christian Council No access
  5. The New Life Movement and Its Theory and Praxis in Connection with Social Regeneration and Service No access
  6. Foreign Missionaries in Partnership with the Chinese Christian Church No access
  7. Collaborating with Catholic and Protestant Foreign Missions to Care for “Warphans” No access
  8. THE SURE VICTORY (1955) No access
  9. Notes No access
1. 1. Background No access
  2. Wartime Women’s Work and the Women’s Advisory Council of the New Life Movement No access
  3. Chinese Philosophy and Women’s Work No access
  4. Women’s Gathering on August 1, 1937 No access
  5. May 1938 Women’s Conference in Guling No access
  6. Chinese and Indian Women in the Global War No access
  7. Soong Mayling, the Mother of China No access
  8. Notes No access
2. 1. Warphans During the War of Resistance No access
  2. Soong Mayling’s Rhetorical Labor: Essays and Speeches from Chinese Periodicals for Female Readers During the Early War Years No access
  3. The Costs and Consequences of Emotional Labor No access
  4. Notes No access
1. 1. December 1936: The Xi’an Incident No access
  2. Soong Mayling: A Chinese Female Revolutionary No access
  3. August 1942: Negotiations in Xinjiang No access
  4. Soong Mayling Assisting Chiang Kai-shek with American Personnel in China No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. A Journey to India No access
  2. Great Britain and the Chiangs: Wartime Diplomacy and Geopolitics No access
  3. Soong Mayling’s Wartime Work and Great Britain No access
  4. “What War is Teaching China”: Articles in The Spectator, July 1938 No access
  5. Soong Mayling’s Diplomatic Range: A Letter to Richard Stafford Cripps No access
  6. The British United Aid to China Fund (Lady Cripps’ Fund) No access
  7. Notes No access
3. 1. Background No access
  2. Soong Mayling’s U.S. Tour No access
  3. 1. February 18, 1943, U.S. Congress No access
    2. MARCH 7, 1943, Wellesley College No access
    3. Soong Mayling’s Wartime Work: Diplomatic and Military Details from the Chinese Archives No access
  4. Influencing the American President No access
  5. Cairo 1943 No access
  6. Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts No access
  7. After the Cairo Conference of 1943 No access
  8. Yalta and Its Consequences No access
  9. Notes No access
1. Epilogue No access
2. Notes No access
1. 1. So Who Was Mayling Soong Chiang? No access
2. Early Religious Background No access
3. A Crisis Leads in a New Direction No access
4. Personal Charisma Which Influenced China and the United States No access
5. Notes No access
1. Selected Archives No access
2. Selected Collections or Series No access
3. Selected Bibliography No access
4. For Further Reading No access
Index No access Pages 299 - 310
About the Author No access Pages 311 - 312