Article: Educating the Women of Hainan: The Career of Margaret Moninger in China, 1915-1942.

Kathleen Lodwick, associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, has previously dealt with the broad sweep of mission history in her two-volume work The Chinese Recorder Index. Now she has turned her attention to an in-depth study of the missionary career of a single woman on the island of Hainan under the Presbyterian Board who wrote home every week to tell her family of her day-to-day activities. The book's charm and authenticity lie in the author's meticulous use of this correspondence, which provides an intimate look at life and relationships on the mission compound and with the Chinese Christian community.

Margaret Moninger was a remarkable ...

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