Divine Domesticities. Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific

Divine Domesticities Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific

Divine Domesticities Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific Edited by Hyaeweol Choi and Margaret Jolly

Published by ANU Press The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Email: anupress@anu.edu.au This title is also available online at http://press.anu.edu.au National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Author: Title: ISBN: Subjects: Other Authors/Contributors: Choi, Hyaeweol, author. Divine domesticities : Christian paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific / Hyaeweol Choi and Margaret Jolly. 9781925021943 (paperback) 9781925021950 (ebook) Indigenous women--asia Indigenous women--pacific Area Missions--Asia Missions--Pacific Area Jolly, Margaret 1949- author. Dewey Number: 266.023 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Cover photos: Top Missionary home interior, from the Reverend Corwin & Nellie Taylor Collection, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Used with permission. Bottom Left to right at the quilting horses: Adelaide Gifford carding wool; Mrs. Milia Kaiawe, Mrs Leialoha Kanoho, Mrs. Akao Lock, Mrs. Louisa Malina, Mrs. Kalei Montgomery, working collectively on an appliqué quilt, photographer, William Junokichi Senda, 1933. Used with permission from the Kaua i Museum. Cover design and layout by ANU Press Printed by Griffin Press This edition 2014 ANU Press

Contents List of Illustrations.... vii Preface and Acknowledgements.... xi Paradoxes of Domesticity: Missionary Encounters in the Making of Christian Homes in Asia and the Pacific...1 Hyaeweol Choi and Margaret Jolly Part One Permeability and Paradox: Revisiting Domestic and Public in Asia and the Pacific 1. The Missionary Home as a Pulpit: Domestic Paradoxes in Early Twentieth-Century Korea... 29 Hyaeweol Choi 2. Missionaries and A Better Baby Movement in Colonial Korea.... 57 Sonja M. Kim 3. All Other Loves Excelling: Mary Kidder, Wakamatsu Shizuko and Modern Marriage in Meiji Japan.... 85 Rebecca Copeland 4. Raising the Standards of Family Life: Ginling Women s College and Christian Social Service in Republican China... 113 Helen M. Schneider Part Two Sacred and Secular Genealogies: Christian Missions and States Colonial and Contemporary 5. Sacred Genealogies of Development: Christianity and the Indian Modern.... 143 Kalpana Ram 6. Ol Meri Bilong Wok (Hard-working Women): Women, Work and Domesticity in Papua New Guinea.... 167 Jemima Mowbray 7. Tired for nothing? Women, Chiefs, and the Domestication of Customary Authority in Solomon Islands.... 199 Debra McDougall

Part Three The Architectonics of Home and Emotion: New Christian Families in Conversion Experiences 8. Agency and Salvation in Christian Child Rescue in Colonial India: Preena and Amy Carmichael.... 227 Annie McCarthy 9. Deviant Domesticities and Sexualised Childhoods: Prostitutes, Eunuchs and the Limits of the State Child Rescue Mission in Colonial India.... 247 Jessica Hinchy 10. A New Family: Domesticity and Sentiment among Chinese and Western Women at Shanghai s Door of Hope... 281 Sue Gronewold 11. From Open Fale to Mission Houses: Negotiating the Boundaries of Domesticity in Samoa.... 299 Latu Latai 12. Paradoxical Intimacies: The Christian Creation of the Huli Domestic Sphere.... 325 Holly Wardlow Part Four On and Beneath the Skin: Embodiment and Sensuous Agency 13. Paradoxical Performances: Cruel Constraints and Christian Emancipation in 19 20 th -Century Missionary Representations of Chinese Women and Girls.... 347 Shih-Wen Sue Chen 14. Bibles, Baseball and Butterfly Sleeves: Filipina Women and American Protestant Missions, 1900 1930............ 367 Laura R. Prieto 15. The Materiality of Missionisation in Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea.... 397 Anna-Karina Hermkens 16. A Saturated History of Christianity and Cloth in Oceania... 429 Margaret Jolly Contributors.... 455 Bibliography.... 461