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Book SynopsisIn Borrowed Place: Mission Stations and Local Adaption in Early Twentieth-Century Hunan Riika-Leena Juntunen creates a microhistorical narrative around the establishment, reception, and development of Lizhou protestant stations during the turbulent years of popular nationalism and early communist activity. The book examines the changing place identity around the stations from political, religious, ritual, cultural, and gendered perspectives, revealing a Chinese semi-religious community with varying motivations and in constant dialogue with its surroundings. The group developed its own normative code and hierarchy, and it offered both economic and religious benefits according to local models. Yet the developing political situation also meant it had to solve the question of anti-foreignism to be able to continue its existence.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Tables and Figures Abbreviations Maps Introduction Chapter 1: A Place Called Fuyintang Chapter 2: Developing Identities Within the Local Discourse Chapter 3: Independent Local Communities Chapter 4: How to Resolve the Foreign Problem After 1925? Conclusion: Communal Existence and Continuing Patterns Bibliography Index
