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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: [email protected] This title is also available online at http://press.anu.edu.au National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Author: Choi, Hyaeweol, author. Title: Divine domesticities : Christian paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific / Hyaeweol Choi and Margaret Jolly. ISBN: 9781925021943 (paperback) 9781925021950 (ebook) Subjects: Indigenous women--Asia Indigenous women--Pacific Area Missions--Asia Missions--Pacific Area Other Authors/Contributors: 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 19–20th-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 List of Illustrations Figures 1 Horace Underwood’s Western-style house 34 2 Missionary home interior, featuring unidentified woman 35 3 Women’s Bible Institute, Taiku in 1917 45 4 A clinic at the Seoul Evangelistic Center 48 5 Home Management House Opening in 1936 51 6 Inside the Home Management House at Ewha 51 7 A youthful Mary E. Kidder (1834–1910) 86 8 Wakamatsu Shizuko as a young girl (1864–1896) 91 9 Ferris Seminary 94 10 Wakamatsu Shizuko, translator, author, educator 96 11 Jogaku zasshi, 1885–1904 101 12 Rothesay Miller (1843–1915) 105 13 Wakamatsu Shizuko (inset) and her three children 109 14 Mrs. Mary Kidder Miller 111 15 Women working together in the garden. Hahalis, Buka, 186 Autonomous Region of Bougainville 2006 16 “Working copra” for cash. Carrying coconuts to be broken then 186 smoked. Hahalis, Buka, Autonomous Region of Bougainville 2006 17 Handing over coconuts at the smukhaus (smoke house) built in the 187 bush. Hahalis, Buka, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, 2006 18 Marina Alepio with grandchild, Jericho village 204 19 Pastor Joseph Sasapitu and members of the Ranongga United 211 Church Women’s Fellowship at the unveiling of a monument to the memory of Joyce Dunateko Panakera, 6 August 2000 20 Luke Irapio and Varina Lekevolomo, Meeting of the Pienuna Chiefs’ 220 Trust Board 21 Badaga Girls 230 22 Preena and Lavana, “The Elf and the Flower” 231 23 Preena and Preeya getting ready for a coming feast day 232 vii Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific 24 The Temple 234 25 The Temple 234 26 Preena and her class 245 27 A modern version of a traditional Samoan fale recently constructed 300 at the National University of Samoa 28 The interior lashings and construction details of the fale at the 301 National University of Samoa 29 An old Samoan fale that still stands and is used today 322 30 A Samoan fale that has been enclosed in European style 322 31 Anna Isabel Fox, unnamed Bible students, and Florence Fox, 368 ca. 1921 32 Grace Evelyn Fox, “The beautiful costume was given me by 395 my girls…” 33 Uiaku schoolgirls, showing their facial tattoos 399 34 Money in “The Den”, the Uiaku missionary house. Notice the 410 use of indigenous designed tapa cloth as tablecloth and Western designed strips of tapa cloth used as frieze 35 “Collingwood Bay curios” 414 36 Left to right at the quilting horses: Adelaide Gifford carding wool; 437 Mrs. Milia Kaiawe, Mrs. Leialoha Kanoho, Mrs. Akao Lock, Mrs. Louisa Malina, Mrs. Kalei Montgomery, working collectively on an appliqué quilt, 1933 37 Appliqué quilt (1886) with red design on white background 440 featuring both Hawaiian flowers and images of feather standards associated with royalty 38 Erromangan woman in a dress of decorated bark cloth, worn on 447 ritual occasions such as marriage, ca. 1880s 39 Ni-Vanuatu women marching together on the streets of Port Vila 451 wearing identical aelen dres to celebrate women in business, July 2009 viii List of Illustrations Maps 1 Map of Solomon Islands, the New Georgia Group, and 202 Ranongga Island 2 Mission fields in the south and northeast coast of British New 402 Guinea. The Kwato district was part of the London Missionary Society (L.M.S) Table 1 Percentage of male to female enrolments in schools (both 192 administration and mission), 1950–1970 ix
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