Nordic Connections

Norwegian and Swedish Missionaries in Changsha in the 1920s

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11943544
AutoresMalin Gregersen (0000-0002-0406-6037, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume51
Fascículo3
Páginas442-463
Data de publicação2023-05-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0308-6534 • E-ISSN: 1743-9329
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03086534.2023.2205691
OpenAlexW4379383607
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas28

This article explores the interconnections and relations of Nordic missionaries in early-twentieth-century China. Focusing on encounters in the Hunanese province capital of Changsha in and around the 1920s, it discusses ways in which Norwegian and Swedish missionary workers from four Christian associations made sense of their position as Nordic Lutherans within the international community in Changsha. Using both unpublished and published sources it explores the arrival of the Church of Sweden Mission to China in 1920 and plans to establish a Swedish Lutheran university in China. In conjunction it examines the Nordics as part of the international networks in the city, the evacuation of foreigners in 1927, and the ways in which they were affected by national and imperial ambitions and relations. The exploration of Nordic missionaries as ambivalent actors in a semi-imperial arena contributes to our understandings of the connections, co-operations and power dynamics of the transimperial world of the early twentieth century

Ambivalence · Ancient history · Capital (architecture · China · Norwegian · Political science · Position (finance · Power (physics · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law