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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,” especially skills in surgery, even if they did not have the educational background necessary to study the “scientific medicine” that was becoming hegemonic. The article argues that, rather than seeing these schools as simply an export from the United States to China, it is important to look at how the Chinese involved with these schools influenced their development. Central to the argument is an emphasis on regional diversity within both the United States and China. The evidence presented suggests that some areas of China may have been more receptive to medical education for women than some areas of the United States, particularly the American South. American missionary medical schools for Chinese women were therefore not simply an export from the United States to China, but influenced medical education for women within the United States as well

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