Women -- Education -- China
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
Collection
Call Number: RG 8
Overview:
The China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection is an open collection. It currently contains material from more than 325 individuals, primarily Protestant missionaries to China. The time period covered is approximately from 1834 to 1998. The China Records Project was initiated by the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A in 1968. The aim of the project was to insure the preservation of the personal records of former missionaries to China and to provide a central...
Dates:
1834-2017
Sarah Refo Mason Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 175
Overview:
This collection provides valuable collected research files on a variety of subjects, including: missionary children, the Canton (Guangzhou) YMCA, True Light Middle School, women in China, Lingnan University, the Hmong (Miao) people, and the Presbyterian Mission Home (Cameron House) in San Francisco. The collection also contains documentation related to the life and work of Sarah Refo Mason and her parents, Henry and Sarah F. Refo. Sarah Refo Mason (1930-2002), the child of missionaries to...
Dates:
1866-1999
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
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Sarah Refo Mason Papers
Esther Tappert Mortensen Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 21
Overview:
The papers provide documentation of a missionary who served in varied roles in China during the turbulent period of 1929 to 1953. The later letters from Shanghai provide information about the situation in the city after the Communist takeover. Esther Tappert taught English at Ginling College, a mission-sponsored women's college in Nanking, China from 1929 to 1931 and 1933 to1937. From 1937 to 1939 she taught English at Chungking University, a Chinese government university. She returned to the...
Dates:
1903-1972
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
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Esther Tappert Mortensen Papers