Ginling College(金陵女子文理学院): The Making of a Family Saga

Ginling College (金陵女子文理学院) was a Christian, women’s college in Nanjing, China founded by a group of American women missionaries after the 1911 revolution. It was the first college granting bachelor's degrees to female students in China and became a sister school to Smith College of Northampton, Massachusetts. Through researching oral and written histories of the Chinese, American and Chinese American women who created and sustained the school, Professor Jin Feng (associate professor, Grinnell College) sheds light on how issues of modernity, nationalism and gender affected the ways this unique group of women experienced and influenced history.

Jin Feng is Associate Professor of Chinese and Japanese at Grinnell College, Iowa. She has published The New Woman in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Fiction (Purdue UP, 2004), Chen Hengzhe’s Early Autobiography (Anhui Education Publications, 2006), The Making of a Family Saga: Ginling College (SUNY Press, 2009) and several scholarly articles.. Her research interests include narratives, gender studies, and the Chinese diaspora. She is currently working on web-based popular Chinese literature.

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This program is co-sponsored by the Asian American/Asian Research Institute.

Photo of Ginling College faculty and administrators, 1932, courtesy of Yale Divinity School Library, Special Collections.