1st Edition
"A Model for All Christian Women" Candida Xu, a Chinese Christian Woman of the Seventeenth Century
Acknowledgments vii
Preface by D.E. Mungello ix
List of Abbreviations xiii
Map: China in the time of Candida Xu xv
Introduction 1
Chapter One: Roots of the Xu Family: The Generations before Candida Xu 15
Chapter Two: Childhood and Married Life 31
Chapter Three: The Widowed Years 63
Chapter Four: The Legacy of Candida Xu 99
Appendices:
Appendix 1: "Baolun tang gao" 寶倫堂稿. Autobiographical Preface by Hesha 鶴沙 (Xu Zuanzeng 許纘曾). Translation of Portions Related to Candida Xu 115
Appendix 2: Xu Zuanzeng’s Biography of His Mother Candida Xu. Translation of
"Compendio de la vida y la muerte de Doña Candida, sacado de un librito,
que imprimió su hijo D. Basilio Hiù." Translated by Matt Hill 121
Appendix 3: Xu Yunxi, Foreword to the 1938 edition of Yiwei Zhongguo fengjiao taitai
一位中國奉教太太 133
Bibliography 135
Index with Glossary 155
Biography
Gail King was born and raised in a small farming town in Colorado in the western U.S. She received a B.A. in East Asian Studies from the University of Colorado, worked as a bookmobile librarian in Colorado for four years, and completed an M.A. and Ph.D. (1982) in Chinese Literature at the University of Chicago. From October 1982 until retirement in May 2019 she served as the Asian Studies Librarian in the Harold B. Lee Library of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
Selected for The Society for the Study of Chinese Religions Celebration of First Books at the AAS Annual Meeting (March 26, 2022), featuring books that exemplify new groundbreaking work in the study of Chinese Religions.
'The depiction of Candida Xu in this book (published in 2021) has broadened our horizon in rediscovering the life of women in Chinese Christianity.'
- Wai-yin Christina WONG 黃慧賢, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
