Jin Feng is Associate Professor of Chinese and Japanese at Grinnell College and the author of The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction.

• List of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Telling Stories of GinlingGinling CollegeThe Family DiscourseSources and ScholarshipOrganization of Chapters1. The House of a Hundred Rooms (1915–23)Setting and Dramatis PersonaeThe House of a Hundred RoomsWe Had a DreamCreation of the Family DiscourseImplementation of the Family Discourse: Initial NegotiationsStudent Compositions: The Kingdom of God in China2. Building These Hallowed Halls (1923–27)The New Ginling HomeTraining Her Body for God or for China: PE at Ginling (I)Femininity, Christianity, and Nationalism: PE at Ginling (II)Awakening to Rising Confl icts3. The Return of the Native Daughter (1927–37)The Tempest of 1927Mother and DaughterCooperation, Equality, and Power: Ginling’s Battle for Independence in the 1920sDissent, Squabble, and Unrest: "Family" Life in the 1920s to 1930s4. Dispersion and Reunion (1937–45)The Nanjing Massacre: 1937–38Sharing the Fate of the National Family (I): Adventures of the Ginling Family in ExileSharing the Fate of the National Family (II): Curricular AdjustmentsHead of the Family in the WarHeaven or Hell? The Two Sides of the War Story5. Things Came Undone (1945–52)HomecomingDisintegration and Countermeasures at Postwar GinlingRegime Change and the EndEpilogue: Resurrection and ReunionFamily CorrespondenceGinling RebornThe Discourse of the Ginling Family: Final AccountingAppendix A: Biographical DictionaryAppendix B: Glossary of Chinese CharactersAppendix C: Catalogue of Names and Times of Interviews by the AuthorNotesBibliographyIndex