Connie Shemo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1529472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Connie Shemo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Connie |
| FAMILY NAME | Shemo |
| SIGNATURE | SHEMO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Plattsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Transnational Feminisms and Colonial Complexities in the Pan-Pacific
Cultures Colliding
Schism
The title of Christie Chui-Shan Chow’s book Schism: Seventh-Day Adventism in Post-Denominational China encapsulates its central argument. The survival of congregations that identify as Seventh-Day Adventists by definition challenges the Chinese government contention that Protestant Christianity in China is “post-denominational.” Chinese Adventists, like Adventists globally, have traditions that distinguish them from the majority of Protestant den…
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye. China and the True Jesus
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye’s China and the True Jesus is a study of the True Jesus Church (TJC), which began in Beijing in 1917 and is still in existence today. While the headquarters of the TJC is currently in California, the focus of this study is the church in the People’s Republic of China. Inouye describes the church as “charismatic” and “Pentecostal.” Her overarching goal in the study is to “understand how charismatic claims inspire human org…
Imperialism, Race, and Rescue
In September 1918, the medical personnel from Soochow Medical College for Women, a Southern Methodist missionary medical school in Suzhou, China, set out for Vladivostok, Siberia, in response to a call from the newly established American Red Cross unit to aid with the refugee emergency in that city. While the Red Cross had originally been set up to help with the medical needs of the Czechoslovakian and anti-Bolshevik Russian military forces then …
Protestants Abroad
In Protestants Abroad David A. Hollinger argues that American missionaries and their children “changed America” between the 1920s and the 1970s (p. 1). They offered the American public a greater understanding of other cultures, advancing “domestic programs which would later be called ‘multicultural’ and foreign policies that prioritized alliances with non-white, colonized peoples,” resulting in a “missionary cosmopolitanism” centered on Asia (ibi…
Her Chinese Attended to Almost Everything’
This essay uses a 1915 crisis at the American Presbyterian Hackett Medical College for Women in Guangzhou, China as a lens to explore the level of control Chinese women, who were known as “assistants,” exercised at the school. Official literature of the Hackett portrays the American woman missionary physician Dr. Mary Fulton as controlling the college, but in fact its Chinese women graduates largely ran the institution for some years before 1915.…
Remaking the American Patient
The Gospel of the Kingdom
In Christian Imperialism , Emily Conroy-Krutz begins with a description of “what we think we know about Americans in the early Republic.” While “the British were imperial and global,” Americans “were republican and continental,” focused on westward expansion (1). Mining the extensive papers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) from the first discussions of the idea of creating the organization in 1810 up until the M…
A New Gospel for Women
Wants Learn Cut, Finish People”
This article examines two of the three American missionary medical schools for Chinese women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the Soochow Woman’s Medical College in Suzhou and the Hackett Medical College for Women in Guangzhou. The article uses these medical schools to challenge the concept of “cultural imperialism.” These schools offered less elite women the chance to acquire some skills associated with “Western medicine,” es…
Patricia A. SCHECHTER. Exploring the Decolonial Imaginary
Patricia A. Schechter explores the “transnational lives” of four women: Amanda Berry Smith, a nineteenth-century missionary to Liberia; author Gertrude Stein; Josefina Silva de Cintron, editor of Artes y Letras (a journal that operated between 1933 and 1939 and had readership in both Puerto Rico and New York City); and Maida Springer, a labor activist in mid-twentieth-century United States and Liberia. As she notes, all but Stein have been largel…
Directions in Scholarship on American Women and Protestant Foreign Mission
This essay argues that scholarship on American women missionaries is at the forefront of reconceptualized visions of U.S. women’s history, the history of U.S. foreign relations and the boundaries of U.S. history. In the heyday of Protestant foreign mission in the 19th and early 20th century, women missionaries usually could not preach, and so were heavily involved in spreading Western education, Western medicine, and ideas about “domesticity.” Am…
The Chinese Medical Ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, 1872–1937
Reforming the World
Competing Kingdoms
Competing Kingdoms rethinks the importance of women and religion within U.S. imperial culture from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. In an era when the United States was emerging as a world power to challenge the hegemony of European imperial powers, American women missionaries strove to create a new Kingdom of God. They did much to shape a Protestant empire based on American values and institutions. This book examines American w…
Wants Learn Cut, Finish People”
This article examines two of the three American missionary medical schools for Chinese women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the Soochow Woman’s Medical College in Suzhou and the Hackett Medical College for Women in Guangzhou. The article uses these medical schools to challenge the concept of “cultural imperialism.” These schools offered less elite women the chance to acquire some skills associated with “Western medicine,” es…
Competing Kingdoms
Competing Kingdoms rethinks the importance of women and religion within U.S. imperial culture from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. In an era when the United States was emerging as a world power to challenge the hegemony of European imperial powers, American women missionaries strove to create a new Kingdom of God. They did much to shape a Protestant empire based on American values and institutions. This book examines American w…
The Chinese Medical Ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, 1872–1937
Reforming the World
Directions in Scholarship on American Women and Protestant Foreign Mission
This essay argues that scholarship on American women missionaries is at the forefront of reconceptualized visions of U.S. women’s history, the history of U.S. foreign relations and the boundaries of U.S. history. In the heyday of Protestant foreign mission in the 19th and early 20th century, women missionaries usually could not preach, and so were heavily involved in spreading Western education, Western medicine, and ideas about “domesticity.” Am…
Wants Learn Cut, Finish People”
This article examines two of the three American missionary medical schools for Chinese women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the Soochow Woman’s Medical College in Suzhou and the Hackett Medical College for Women in Guangzhou. The article uses these medical schools to challenge the concept of “cultural imperialism.” These schools offered less elite women the chance to acquire some skills associated with “Western medicine,” es…
Patricia A. SCHECHTER. Exploring the Decolonial Imaginary
Patricia A. Schechter explores the “transnational lives” of four women: Amanda Berry Smith, a nineteenth-century missionary to Liberia; author Gertrude Stein; Josefina Silva de Cintron, editor of Artes y Letras (a journal that operated between 1933 and 1939 and had readership in both Puerto Rico and New York City); and Maida Springer, a labor activist in mid-twentieth-century United States and Liberia. As she notes, all but Stein have been largel…
The Gospel of the Kingdom
In Christian Imperialism , Emily Conroy-Krutz begins with a description of “what we think we know about Americans in the early Republic.” While “the British were imperial and global,” Americans “were republican and continental,” focused on westward expansion (1). Mining the extensive papers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) from the first discussions of the idea of creating the organization in 1810 up until the M…
A New Gospel for Women
Her Chinese Attended to Almost Everything’
This essay uses a 1915 crisis at the American Presbyterian Hackett Medical College for Women in Guangzhou, China as a lens to explore the level of control Chinese women, who were known as “assistants,” exercised at the school. Official literature of the Hackett portrays the American woman missionary physician Dr. Mary Fulton as controlling the college, but in fact its Chinese women graduates largely ran the institution for some years before 1915.…
Remaking the American Patient
Protestants Abroad
In Protestants Abroad David A. Hollinger argues that American missionaries and their children “changed America” between the 1920s and the 1970s (p. 1). They offered the American public a greater understanding of other cultures, advancing “domestic programs which would later be called ‘multicultural’ and foreign policies that prioritized alliances with non-white, colonized peoples,” resulting in a “missionary cosmopolitanism” centered on Asia (ibi…
Imperialism, Race, and Rescue
In September 1918, the medical personnel from Soochow Medical College for Women, a Southern Methodist missionary medical school in Suzhou, China, set out for Vladivostok, Siberia, in response to a call from the newly established American Red Cross unit to aid with the refugee emergency in that city. While the Red Cross had originally been set up to help with the medical needs of the Czechoslovakian and anti-Bolshevik Russian military forces then …
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye. China and the True Jesus
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye’s China and the True Jesus is a study of the True Jesus Church (TJC), which began in Beijing in 1917 and is still in existence today. While the headquarters of the TJC is currently in California, the focus of this study is the church in the People’s Republic of China. Inouye describes the church as “charismatic” and “Pentecostal.” Her overarching goal in the study is to “understand how charismatic claims inspire human org…
Schism
The title of Christie Chui-Shan Chow’s book Schism: Seventh-Day Adventism in Post-Denominational China encapsulates its central argument. The survival of congregations that identify as Seventh-Day Adventists by definition challenges the Chinese government contention that Protestant Christianity in China is “post-denominational.” Chinese Adventists, like Adventists globally, have traditions that distinguish them from the majority of Protestant den…
Transnational Feminisms and Colonial Complexities in the Pan-Pacific
Cultures Colliding
Political science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · History (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · China (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works)